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I wrote a PowerShell function (Start-Count), that counts down or up. Similarly, you can set PowerShell to sleep for 5 minutes using the command below: Start-Sleep -Seconds 300ĥ minutes equals 300 seconds How To Use Powershell Sleep To Countdown (Start-Count Function) So, to delay a PowerShell script by 1 hour use the PowerShell Start-Sleep command below: Start-Sleep -Seconds 3600Īs you can see from the screenshot below, the PowerShell command prompt will not be available until the delay (1 hour) is over. You can easily do this by searching convert 1 hour to seconds in google. To do that though, you have to convert 1 hour to seconds.

The best approach here is to use the Seconds parameter of the Start-Sleep command. In my third example in this subsection, I want to set PowerShell sleep for 1 hour. For example, if you want to delay a PowerShell script for 0.0005 seconds (0.5 Milliseconds), you can use any of the commands below: Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 0.5 Moreover, you can use the Millisecond’s parameter to set sleep to less than 1 second. To set PowerShell to delay for 30000 Milliseconds (30 seconds), use any of the commands below: Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 30000 How To Set PowerShell Sleep In Milliseconds, 1 Second (Or Less), Minuites, Or For 1 HourĪs I explained in the last section, the Start-Sleep command has two syntaxes, as shown below: Start-Sleep -Milliseconds This section has some examples of how to use Powershell Sleep to solve some complex tasks like countdown and more. To continue with the last example, to delay my script for 5 minutes (300 seconds), I will run the command below: Start-Sleep -Seconds 300 Powershell Sleep Examples To do this, use the Seconds parameter of the Start-Sleep command.

Seconds: You can also specify the delay period in seconds. PowerShell will delay for the milliseconds you enter.įor example, if I want to delay my script for 300000 milliseconds (5 minutes), I will run the command below: Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 300000 Milliseconds – use it to specify the time (Int32) in milliseconds.