{"id":1972,"date":"2014-02-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/20\/powertip-find-status-of-powershell-preference-variables\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-status-of-powershell-preference-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-status-of-powershell-preference-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip:  Find Status of PowerShell Preference Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: &nbsp;Easily find the status of Windows PowerShell <strong>Preference<\/strong> variables.<\/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;How can I see the preference settings that I can change with Windows PowerShell?<\/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;Look at variables that contain the word&nbsp;<b>Preference<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>&nbsp;in their name by using the&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and looking at the&nbsp;<b>Variable<\/b>&nbsp;drive:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-ChildItem variable:*preference<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;To see all of the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;<b>Preference<\/b>&nbsp;variables, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh847796.aspx\">about_Preference_Variables<\/a>. <br \/>Many of the&nbsp;<b>Preference<\/b>&nbsp;variables are not present on the&nbsp;<b>Variable<\/b>&nbsp;drive unless you change their initial values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Easily find the status of Windows PowerShell Preference variables. &nbsp;How can I see the preference settings that I can change with Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Look at variables that contain the word&nbsp;Preference&nbsp;&nbsp;in their name by using the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and looking at the&nbsp;Variable&nbsp;drive: Get-ChildItem variable:*preference Note&nbsp;&nbsp;To see all of the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;Preference&nbsp;variables, see&nbsp;about_Preference_Variables. Many [&hellip;]<\/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-1972","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: &nbsp;Easily find the status of Windows PowerShell Preference variables. &nbsp;How can I see the preference settings that I can change with Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Look at variables that contain the word&nbsp;Preference&nbsp;&nbsp;in their name by using the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and looking at the&nbsp;Variable&nbsp;drive: Get-ChildItem variable:*preference Note&nbsp;&nbsp;To see all of the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;Preference&nbsp;variables, see&nbsp;about_Preference_Variables. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/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=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}