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About your PowerShell

get-host

Alternatively,

$PSVersionTable

Terminology: Each of the above commands entered in the PowerShell console are called cmdlet (commandlet).

Get PowerShell version

$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Get $host members

$host | gm

Color of error messages appearing in the PowerShell console

$host.PrivateData | gm

Console host UI

$host.UI | gm

and

$host.UI.RawUI | gm

Available colors that comes with the installed PowerShell are: Black, DarkBlue, DarkGreen, DarkCyan, DarkRed, DarkMagenta, DarkYellow, Gray, DarkGray, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, and White. To view these colors you need to install TMOutput Module using the following command in the PowerShell console.

Install-Module -Name TMOutput

Then,

Show-TMOutputColor

You can use any of these colors to change the color appearing on the console. Say,

$host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = "White"
$host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = "Magenta"

Alternatively,

Set-PSReadlineOption -TokenKind Parameter -ForegroundColor White

or

Set-PSReadlineOption -TokenKind Comment -ForegroundColor White -BackgroundColor Black

Reset to default colors

Set-PSReadlineOption -ResetTokenColors

This is of the form Set-PSReadlineOption -TokenKind Parameter -<Token> Blue. To get the list of tokens (and returns the current state of the settings)

Get-PSReadlineOption

Give custom title to the Powershell window

$Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle=”Custom Title of This Window”

Determine Powershell profile location

$profile

This will return the local path to Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1. The script could include something like

$Shell = $Host.UI.RawUI
$Shell.WindowTitle=”Docker PowerShell”
$Shell.BackgroundColor=”White”
$Shell.ForegroundColor=”Blue”
$size = $Shell.WindowSize
$size.width=120
$size.height=55
$Shell.WindowSize = $size
$size = $Shell.BufferSize
$size.width=120
$size.height=5000
$Shell.BufferSize = $size
Clear-Host

What is the current color setting?

Get-PSReadlineOption | Select *color

Reset color to default setting.

Set-PSReadlineOption -ResetTokenColors