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Get Profiles

Posted on November 6, 2009November 6, 2009

Keith Hill posted a bit of PowerShell code a few days ago that piqued my interest. I knew that in PowerShell, the $profile variable would list your current profile. PS C:\> $profile C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 This is handy because it makes it easy to call up my script editor if I need to make a change. But…

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Powershell: Exit Stage Left

Posted on September 1, 2009

While reviewing and revising the manuscript for Windows PowerShell v2.0: TFM 3rd ed. I had the opportunity to revisit our chapter on working with events in PowerShell. An event in Windows is when something happens like a mouse-click, a process being created or window resized. In PowerShell you can easily watch for an event of interest and then do something when it happens or fires. This is referred to as an event subscription.

PowerShell v2.0 has a few event related cmdlets you can use for creating an event subscription: Register-WMIEvent, Register-ObjectEvent and Register-EngineEvent. Today I want to show you something I think you might find helpful using the last cmdlet in the list.

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