KBM, Keyboard Manager, Can't run PowerShell (.ps1) files with shortcut remapping

[MaixGit]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.88.0

Installation method

Microsoft Store

Running as admin

None

Area(s) with issue?

Keyboard Manager

Steps to reproduce

I used to have my custom scripts in .bat files which worked fine when starting them with shortcuts, but I've moved to using PowerShell scripts and PowerToys has an issue with the .ps1 files.

Having a shortcut mapped to run a .ps1 file as above, results in the following error notification:

And having the .ps1 file set to run with elevated privileges in the shortcut remapper window results in this error and then the usual failed to start notification once I've clicked ok:

I've also tried changing the "start in" directory, and visibility options for the shortcut, also running a different .ps1 file in a different directory, running PowerToys as admin, all of which changed nothing.
I'm using PowerShell 7.5.0 and Windows Terminal, but I also tried with the integrated Windows PowerShell and without Windows Terminal, both of which changed nothing.

Here's a snippet from the log:

[2025-02-13 01:08:57.201267] [p-4716] [t-7632] [trace] PowerToys_KeyboardManager_Event_Settings event was signaled
[2025-02-13 01:08:57.201291] [p-4716] [t-7632] [trace] SettingsHelper::LoadSettings()
[2025-02-13 01:08:58.382429] [p-4716] [t-1084] [trace] ChordKeyboardHandler:returning..
[2025-02-13 01:08:58.382473] [p-4716] [t-8296] [trace] ChordKeyboardHandler:Restart Explorer.ps1, trying to run C:\Users\Bosh\Downloads\Restart Explorer.ps1
[2025-02-13 01:08:58.387834] [p-4716] [t-8296] [trace] ChordKeyboardHandler:Restart Explorer.ps1, already running, pid:0, alreadyRunningAction:0
[2025-02-13 01:08:58.387932] [p-4716] [t-8296] [info] run_non_elevated with params= 
[2025-02-13 01:08:58.388128] [p-4716] [t-8296] [error] CreateProcessW() failed. %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[2025-02-13 01:08:58.388236] [p-4716] [t-8296] [trace] ChordKeyboardHandler:toastXml <toast><visual><binding template="ToastGeneric"><text>Error starting Restart Explorer.ps1</text><text>The application might not have started.</text></binding></visual></toast>

✔️ Expected Behavior

Execute .ps1 files when activating keyboard shortcut

❌ Actual Behavior

Error with starting the .ps1 files when activating keyboard shortcut

Other Software

No response

[MaixGit]

Just tested further, the same thing happens with .vbs files.

Could this be a local policy issue? As I saw online that you need the "-ExecutionPolicy Bypass" flag to run a PowerShell script from a .bat file.

Nevermind it runs just fine with "powershell -File "Restart Explorer.ps1" as a .bat file within the same directory.

[htcfreek]

@MaixGit
Please try to set app to powershell.exe and args to -File <script path>.

[MaixGit]

Alright so there's another issue, I can't type or paste anything into the "arguments" field. Nor can I type or edit the "app" and "start in" paths, I can only set those with the explorer popup, I noticed this earlier so this isn't an overnight change that happened on my system.

Regardless the suggested solution would probably work, but it doesn't fix the core issue of seemingly only being able to launch executable and .bat files. Unless that's intentional by design.