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PowerShell Profile Trick – Change Background Color On Administrative Shell
July 23rd, 2010 | Author: ILovePowershell
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)
Blue background on regular session
Red background on an administrative session
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Beginning PowerShell Free Tutorial – Creating Your Profile
May 27th, 2010 | Author: ILovePowershell
Whether you’re new to PowerShell or not, when you find yourself ready to start customizing PowerShell and making it do a few tricks, you’re going to want to setup your profile.
Don’t worry, I will show you how to create your profile, and even show you how to add a few cool things to your profile. You are about to develop the skills to tame that PowerShell profile!
