Send a "tab" keystroke in powershell-CodePudding

I am trying to send a "TAB" key press, wait 2 secs, then send an "ENTER" key press, but it is not working.

Here is what I tried.

Add-Type -ReferencedAssemblies System.Windows.Forms -UsingNamespace System.Windows.Forms -Namespace demo -Name SendKeyExt  -MemberDefinition  @'
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  private static extern void keybd_event(byte bVk, byte bScan, int dwFlags, int dwExtraInfo);

  private const int KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY = 1;
  private const int KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = 2;

  public static void SendKeysWithWinKey(string keys = null) {
    keybd_event((byte) Keys.LWin, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0);
    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(keys)) { SendKeys.SendWait(keys.ToLowerInvariant()); }
    keybd_event((byte) Keys.LWin, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
  }
'@

[demo.SendKeyExt]::SendKeysWithWinKey('{TAB}')

sleep -Seconds 2

[demo.SendKeyExt]::SendKeysWithWinKey('ENTER')

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$vb = New-Object -ComObject wscript.Shell

$vb.SendKeys('{TAB}')
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
$vb.SendKeys('~')