{"id":4965,"date":"2012-09-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/16\/powertip-easily-find-the-powershell-3-0-preference-variables\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-easily-find-the-powershell-3-0-preference-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easily-find-the-powershell-3-0-preference-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easily Find the PowerShell 3.0 Preference Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to find the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 preference variables.<\/p>\n<\/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 you easily find a listing of all the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 preference variables?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\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&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to display&nbsp;<b>about_Preference_Variables<\/b>&nbsp;Help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">You do not need to type the entire command&mdash;the following command opens the Help:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">help about_pref*<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet to find the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 preference variables. &nbsp;How can you easily find a listing of all the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 preference variables? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet to display&nbsp;about_Preference_Variables&nbsp;Help. You do not need to type the entire command&mdash;the following command opens the Help: help about_pref*<\/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-4965","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;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet to find the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 preference variables. &nbsp;How can you easily find a listing of all the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 preference variables? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet to display&nbsp;about_Preference_Variables&nbsp;Help. You do not need to type the entire command&mdash;the following command opens the Help: help about_pref*<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","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=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/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=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}