{"id":910,"date":"2014-07-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/30\/powertip-check-status-of-powershell-preference-variables\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-check-status-of-powershell-preference-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-check-status-of-powershell-preference-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Check Status of PowerShell Preference Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn to easily check the value assignments of Windows PowerShell preference variables.<\/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 use Windows PowerShell to quickly check the value of Windows PowerShell preference variables?<\/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;You can use the Windows PowerShell variable drive and look for variables that end with <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the word&nbsp;<b>preference<\/b><i>.&nbsp;<\/i>In this example, <strong>dir<\/strong> is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Get-Content<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">dir variable:*preference<span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/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: Learn to easily check the value assignments of Windows PowerShell preference variables. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly check the value of Windows PowerShell preference variables? &nbsp;You can use the Windows PowerShell variable drive and look for variables that end with &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the word&nbsp;preference.&nbsp;In this example, dir is [&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-910","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 to easily check the value assignments of Windows PowerShell preference variables. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly check the value of Windows PowerShell preference variables? &nbsp;You can use the Windows PowerShell variable drive and look for variables that end with &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the word&nbsp;preference.&nbsp;In this example, dir is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/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=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}