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Hardcode the paths to Windows PowerShell and CMD #6684

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Hardcode the paths to Windows PowerShell and CMD #6684

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  1. Hardcode the paths to Windows PowerShell and CMD 

    Occasionally, we get users with corrupt PATH environment variables: they
can't lauch PowerShell, because for some reason it's dropped off their
PATH. We also get users who have stray applications named
`powershell.exe` just lying around in random system directories.

We can combat both of these issues by simply hardcoding where we expect
PowerShell and CMD to live. %SystemRoot% was chosen over %WINDIR%
because apparently (according to Stack Overflow), SystemPath is
read-only and WINDIR isn't.

Refs #6039, #4390, #4228, #4682 (stray powershell.exe).
This may impact #6082 (as it might be another "stray file" incident).
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    DHowett committed Jun 26, 2020
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