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Type.GetTypeFromProgID() returns null, but New-Object works in Powershell

May 8, 2020 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

Because you have a special unicode character between "Auto" and "Update" that you probably don't have in your powershell script, if you paste your code into notepad it will display this:

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PS: more and more people have these kind of hidden char issues these days, not sure why...

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