In PowerShell v2, to list only files or only folders you had to do filtering yourself:
Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $true } Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false }
In PowerShell v3, Get-ChildItem is smart enough to do that for you:
Get-ChildItem $env:windir -File Get-ChildItem $env:windir -Directory