Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

re: Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

IamMred — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:40:27 GMT

@KT In Lee Holmes book, there is a script where he modifies various registry values. I adapted that and was planning on using it for an additional article. Unfortunately, those keys do not seem to work on Windows 7 ... have not tested it on downlevel OS's ... So the answer is it might be possible --- unfortunately, I have not found where those keys are documented, to see if they continued on Windows 7 but were moved ...

re: Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

IamMred — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:38:09 GMT

@Bryan Price In general, I was making these settings manually via the the console properties, but eventually it got to the point where I wanted to have them standardized. Many people, have their profile set up so that they can access it on different machines: they keep it on a USB key, they store it on a share, they have it on their Sky Drive, they sync it via Groove ... the possibilities are nearly endless. Thanks for your comment.

re: Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

IamMred — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:36:10 GMT

@Klaus Schulte Teresa and I have been keeping really busy. Had a great visit with the Pittsburg PowerShell Users Group. You are right, one secret to becoming effecient with PowerShell is getting comfortable with the tools, and with having them setup the way one likes to have them. Thank you for your comments.

re: Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

KT — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:01:07 GMT

Hi,

Is there any posibility to set custom color values of background and font color for entire console using user $profile file ?

re: Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

Bryan Price — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:01:29 GMT

I hadn't thought about setting all that stuff via Powershell. I'm always tweaking the Command shortcut anyway, so I don't really have much of an issue in hand tweaking my Powershell shortcut either. And it can be hand to tweak it on the fly as well.

And you're still going to have to copy over your profile to make this work. :)

re: Customize the PowerShell Console for Increased Efficiency

KLaus Schulte — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:19:05 GMT

Hi Ed

I hope that you and Teresa are having a wonderful 4th of advent, too!

You are saying something very true!

It's always great to feel comfortable with the tools you are using regulary and having an environment, you are used too, is a good point to start from!

Great that we can change most aspects of our favorit powershell host by running a quite simple script ... if you know the details.

Thank you, for presenting these details!

Klaus.