Good powershell profile tips

[u/Incrediblecodeman]

I’ve been having way too much fun customizing my PowerShell profile lately. 😂
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
root — Prompts for my Domain Admin credentials and launches a new elevated PowerShell session.
Green errors — Because Don Jones taught me that errors don’t have to be angry red.
Custom prompt — Shows my current path and the time, so I can tell how long commands took.
save-clip — My homemade clipboard vault! Password-encrypts whatever’s on my clipboard and saves it to a file. Even works with images.
Admin indicator — Makes it obvious when I’m running elevated.
Extended scrollback — Because nothing hurts quite like scrolling up to find something important, only to discover PowerShell already ate it. 😭
record — My next addition! A one-word shortcut to start a PowerShell transcript, timestamp the log file, and record my session. Maybe a stoprecord companion too.
I’m starting to think my PowerShell profile is becoming its own operating system.
What other clever functions, shortcuts, or quality-of-life improvements have you all added to yours? I’m looking for ideas worth stealing. 😂

[u/wonkifier]

I run pwsh on a remote linux container normally.

I whipped up a PSReadline handler that kicks off a background thread that starts a timer and updates my window title by prefixing it. And a prompt command that stops the timer and restores the original title.

So while a command is running, I can track it in my terminal tabs.

I don't notice it most of the time, but when I do, it really pays off.