There is an inconsistency concerning the location of powershell's profile on my windows 7 machine

Question

I created a profile.ps1 in the same directory that contains the powershell executable, which on my machine is C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

The profile file is definitely executed when I run powershell.exe

However when I enter $profile at the powershell prompt, the following non-existent filename is returned

C:\Users\richard\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.psi

Does anyone know how this inconsistency may have happened and what steps should I take to resolve it?

that is where it is SUPPOSED to be. you only happened to drop yours in just the right place to be accidentally loaded. i would move it to where it otta be. [grin] — Lee_Dailey

Mike Shepard Mike Shepard · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-20T18:53:01

$Profile is a string, but it has 4 note properties with possible locations to put profile scripts. Each is selected depending on which user and which host is being executed.

To see all 4, use something like this

$profile| select-object *Host* | format-list

The list you get will show profile script locations that would be run for you and this host.

There is an inconsistency concerning the location of powershell's profile on my windows 7 machine

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