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PowerShell Profiles

  • Profiles are stored in 4 places:

    • AllUsersAllHosts
      • %windir%\system32\Windows­PowerShell\v1.0\profile.ps1
    • AllUsersCurrentHost
      • %windir%\system32\Windows­PowerShell\v1.0 \Microsoft.Power­Shell_profile.ps1
    • CurrentUserAllHosts
      • %UserProfile%\Documents\Windows­PowerShell\profile.ps1
    • CurrentUserCurrentHost
      • %UserProfile%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell \Micro­soft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
    • Microsoft.PowerShell is the host Id, which can change
    • $PsHome stores path to all users profiles
    • $Home stores path to user specific profiles

  • So many profiles...which one to use?

    1. Put truly common things in AllUsersAllHost.
    2. For peculiarities in particular hosts, use AllUsersCurrentHost
    3. Each user manage his/her own preferences and settings in user-specific profiles.

  • Managing multiple profiles can be tedious

    • Possible to use AllHost and still load different settings

      • Get-Host in console and ISE
      if ($Host.Name -eq 'ConsoleHost')
  {
  }
elseif ($Host.Name -like '*ISE Host')
  {
  }

  • Easy way to find your profile:

    • $profile shows path to CurrentUserCurrentHost
    • Append specific profile name to $profile for others
    • This shows the path, does not check for existence
    • Test-Path $profile[.<profile name>]

  • You can manually create/edit the files

  • You can also use PowerShell to make the files

    • Create the file via PowerShell
      • New-Item -type file -path $profile[.<profile name>] -force
    • Edit the file:
      • notepad $profile[.<profile name>]
    • Allow it to execute:
      • Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

  • Example Profile (The one Don actually uses)

Set-Location C:\
$console = $host.UI.RawUI
$console.ForegroundColor = "green"
$console.BackgroundColor = "black"
$scrollback = $console.BufferSize
$scrollback.Height = 3000
$scrollback.Width = 110
$console.BufferSize = $scrollback
$MaximumHistoryCount = 150
$window = $console.WindowSize
$window.Width = 110
$window.Height = 35
$console.WindowSize = $window
function prompt {
  $currentfolder = Split-Path -leaf -path (Get-Location)
  Write-Host ("PS [" + $currentfolder + "]:") -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Blue
  return " "
}
function w {explorer .}

function edit($x) {
    . 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' $x
}
Clear-Host

function prompt { Write-Host ("PS [" + $(get-date) + "] >") -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Cyan return " " }