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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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