{"id":3140,"date":"2013-07-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/29\/powertip-reload-your-powershell-profile\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-reload-your-powershell-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-reload-your-powershell-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Reload Your PowerShell Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Reload your Windows PowerShell profile without closing and reopening Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/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 reload my Windows PowerShell profile to test some changes I made&mdash;without closing and reopening Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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 invocation operator with the automatic&nbsp;<strong>$profile<\/strong>&nbsp;variable:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">&amp; $profile<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Depending on how you have written your profile, you may generate a large number of errors, for example,&nbsp;<strong>Drive already exists<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>Alias already exists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Reload your Windows PowerShell profile without closing and reopening Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I reload my Windows PowerShell profile to test some changes I made&mdash;without closing and reopening Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the invocation operator with the automatic&nbsp;$profile&nbsp;variable: &amp; $profile Note&nbsp;&nbsp;Depending on how you have written your profile, you may generate a large number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Reload your Windows PowerShell profile without closing and reopening Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I reload my Windows PowerShell profile to test some changes I made&mdash;without closing and reopening Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the invocation operator with the automatic&nbsp;$profile&nbsp;variable: &amp; $profile Note&nbsp;&nbsp;Depending on how you have written your profile, you may generate a large number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/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=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}