In this video, we look at how to solve the most common complaint I get about my videos using a PowerShell Profile. With Profiles, you can have cmdlets like StartTranscript run everytime you open a new session. Pretty cool stuff that is easy to implement once I show you the basics.

Cmdlets we cover:
* Get_PSReadLineOption
* $profile
* testpath
* NewItem

Video on installing PSReadLine
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#Color Function Script
function ShowColors( ) {
$colors = [Enum]::GetValues( [ConsoleColor] )
$max = ($colors | foreach { "$_ ".Length } | MeasureObject Maximum).Maximum
foreach( $color in $colors ) {
WriteHost (" {0,2} {1,$max} " f [int]$color,$color) NoNewline
WriteHost "$color" Foreground $color
}
}

#Everything in my profile
StartTranscript | OutNull
SetPSReadlineOption TokenKind String ForegroundColor Yellow
IF (([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] ` [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator))
{
$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = "I love PowerShell Running as ADMINISTRATOR"
}
Else
{
$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = "I love PowerShell"
}
cd c:\demo

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