Most people including myself are never quite totally happy with the defaults for anything provided to us free of charge by the wonderful folks at Microsoft. This includes the Command prompt (CMD) the Services for UNIX (SFU) and the Windows PowerShell consoles.
Those of you who like to explore, tweak and tinker with such things have a wealth of items available to us to use to modify the PowerShell console. Many of these are available to us because the .Net framework is used to support the PowerShell environment. If you are familiar with the C# programming language or with .Net programming you will be proficient at such modifications in no time at all.
I am still new to PowerShell programming as most of us are but the urge to make the PowerShell console all mine is to strong to resist. As a result I have modified my user profile from the title screen to the text and background colors. I even added a Cmdlet alias as well as added a welcome message and changed the prompt to suit my personal needs.
I urge those of you who are sad little individuals like me to customize your PowerShell console. To get those of you who are still new to the PowerShell environment like I am started I will share with those who are interested my PowerShell user profile below. You can use in whole or in part to begin your own customizations.
Microsoft.PowerShell_Profile:
# Set Alias Commands
Set-Alias List Get-ChildItem
# Set Console Window Colors
$Host.Ui.RawUi.BackGroundColor = "Black"
$Host.Ui.RawUi.ForeGroundColor = "Green"
# Set TitleBar Text
$Host.Ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = "My PowerShell Console"
# Clear The Screen
Clear
# Welcome Message
Write-Host $Env:ComputerName "Welcomes You To The Windows PowerShell Console" -Fore Cyan
Write-Host ""
# Date
Write-Host "Today Is:" -Fore Magenta
Get-Date -DisplayHint Date
# Set Prompt Options
Function Prompt
{Write-Host ("MPS:") -NoNewLine
Return " "
}
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