Periodically I notice PowerShell seems to take forever to finish doing whatever it is I told it to do until it occurs to me to "wake it up" by pressing enter. This is not the fault of any one process as best I can tell, as I have even run custom apps that just log their output to the screen every few seconds and even in these cases, PowerShell will stop doing anything after a while until I "give it a kick" by pressing enter.
Any ideas what might be causing this?
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PS C:\> compare-object one.txt two.txt
InputObject SideIndicator
----------- -------------
two.txt =>
one.txt <=