Please try the fix here:
Whenever I try to open powershelll it flashes and closes - Microsoft Community: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/whenever-i-try-to-open-powershelll-it-flashes-and/3ccd4e4d-2513-4593-ae96-dd488777c900
Unable to open powershell
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Whenever i open it it says
The shell cannot be started. A failure occurred during initialization:
The type initializer for 'System.Management.Automation.LanguagePrimitives' threw an exception.
[process exited with code 4294901760 (0xffff0000)]
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