{"id":1966,"date":"2014-02-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/21\/powertip-personalize-your-copy-of-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-personalize-your-copy-of-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-personalize-your-copy-of-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Personalize Your Copy of PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Easily add your user name to your Windows PowerShell console window.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;I often start multiple Windows PowerShell consoles with different credentials. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To avoid getting confused, how can I change the window title to my user name?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>$host<\/b>&nbsp;automatic variable, and change the&nbsp;<b>WindowTitle<\/b>&nbsp;property to the user name:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $env:USERNAME<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Easily add your user name to your Windows PowerShell console window. &nbsp;I often start multiple Windows PowerShell consoles with different credentials. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To avoid getting confused, how can I change the window title to my user name? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$host&nbsp;automatic variable, and change the&nbsp;WindowTitle&nbsp;property to the user name: $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $env:USERNAME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Easily add your user name to your Windows PowerShell console window. &nbsp;I often start multiple Windows PowerShell consoles with different credentials. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To avoid getting confused, how can I change the window title to my user name? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$host&nbsp;automatic variable, and change the&nbsp;WindowTitle&nbsp;property to the user name: $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $env:USERNAME<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}