PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2012 problem – .ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies

Solution to your problem :

For some reason,  account on which you run VS on and on which VS hosts PowerShell has restricted ExecutionPolicy (you can type Get-ExecutionPolicy , select the text and hit CTRL+F8 and should see Restricted as the answer).

So the solution is simple (should be): override the settings and set it to RemoteSigned with this command :

Set-ExectionPolicy RemoteSigned

select the text, hit CTRL+F8. Now hitting F5 should make your PS behave.

(Alternatively Unrestricted is also viable option, but this is considered unsafe. More on this here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176961.aspx)

More on the topic :

I wanted to create some PowerShell script and I thought there has to be something better than PowerShell ISE (sry, I am just too used to VS and debugger and all that goodness I have at my disposal) so I discovered this wonderful plugin for VS 2012 – PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio – http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c9eb3ba8-0c59-4944-9a62-6eee37294597 and all worked as expected, until (as far as I remember) I restarted OS and had this strange error in VS in my output window :

Error: File C:\users\your_name\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\PowerShell Script Project1\PowerShell Script Project1\Script.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.