{"id":71912,"date":"2015-07-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/26\/powertip-open-temporary-copy-of-powershell-profile\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:50","slug":"powertip-open-temporary-copy-of-powershell-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-open-temporary-copy-of-powershell-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Open Temporary Copy of PowerShell Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Open a temporary copy of your Windows PowerShell profile.<\/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 look at a temporary copy of my Windows PowerShell profile to ensure that I don&rsquo;t <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;accidentally make any changes?<\/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;Copy your Windows PowerShell profile to a temporary file, and then open it in the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell ISE, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Copy-Item $PROFILE $([io.path]::GetTempFileName()) -PassThru | % { ise $_.fullname}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Open a temporary copy of your Windows PowerShell profile. &nbsp;How can I look at a temporary copy of my Windows PowerShell profile to ensure that I don&rsquo;t &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;accidentally make any changes? &nbsp;Copy your Windows PowerShell profile to a temporary file, and then open it in the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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":[606,356,607,3,45],"class_list":["post-71912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-file","tag-powertip","tag-profile","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Open a temporary copy of your Windows PowerShell profile. &nbsp;How can I look at a temporary copy of my Windows PowerShell profile to ensure that I don&rsquo;t &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;accidentally make any changes? &nbsp;Copy your Windows PowerShell profile to a temporary file, and then open it in the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71912","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=71912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71912\/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=71912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}