<p>I have searched but apparently my google foo is weak. What I need is a way to prompt for user input in the console and have the request time out after a period of time and continue executing the script if no input comes in. As near as I can tell, Read-Host does not provide this functionality. Neither does $host.UI.PromptForChoice() nor does $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(). Thanks in advance for any pointers.</p>

<p>EDIT: Much thanks to Lars Truijens for finding the answer. I have taken the code that he pointed out and encapsulated it into a function. Note that the way that I have implemented it means there could be up to one second of delay between when the user hits a key and when script execution continues.</p>

<pre><code>function Pause-Host
{
    param(
            $Delay = 1
         )
    $counter = 0;
    While(!$host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable -and ($counter++ -lt $Delay))
    {
        [Threading.Thread]::Sleep(1000)
    }
}
</code></pre>

Found something
here
:
```
```
$counter = 0
while(!$Host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable -and ($counter++ -lt 600))
{
      [Threading.Thread]::Sleep( 1000 )
}
```
```