{"id":72032,"date":"2015-07-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/20\/powertip-determine-if-you-have-powershell-profile\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:55","slug":"powertip-determine-if-you-have-powershell-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-determine-if-you-have-powershell-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Determine If You Have PowerShell Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to determine if you have a local Windows PowerShell profile.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/2577.Q.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/2577.Q.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp; How can I find if I have a Windows PowerShell profile?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/0576.A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/0576.A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the <b>Test-Path<\/b> cmdlet, and check for the existence of <strong>$profile<\/strong>, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">test-path $PROFILE<\/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: Learn how to determine if you have a local Windows PowerShell profile.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; How can I find if I have a Windows PowerShell profile? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the Test-Path cmdlet, and check for the existence of $profile, for example: test-path $PROFILE<\/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-72032","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: Learn how to determine if you have a local Windows PowerShell profile.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; How can I find if I have a Windows PowerShell profile? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the Test-Path cmdlet, and check for the existence of $profile, for example: test-path $PROFILE<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032","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=72032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032\/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=72032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}