I Love Powershell

Here’s a great piece of profile customization: Make your PowerShell session have a dark red background each time it starts a session running as an administrator.

To do this, I look the built in $host variable, which has several properties in it, such as the foreground color and the background color of the shell.  Here’s the difference between a PowerShell session running in normal mode (blue screen) vs. administrator mode (red screen)

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Excellent profile customization.  I use this one myself, and honestly it’s my favorite one.  Keeps my head in the right place.

This PowerShell profile customization is simple and sweet:  Go grab a webpage source; parse the lines to get to the juice; display a daily bible verse on my PowerShell console.

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If you want a fast way to get information about the uninstallers that are listed in the check out this simple script to parse out some information for you. 

This little baby asks you for a search term, then grabs the pertinent software uninstall information out of the HKey Local Machine registry hive.

It’s simple and effective,  and I put it together in just a couple of minutes.  It could stand to have some polish on it, but it does the job and it does it like now!

Would you improve it?  How?  Comments are open.

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