How to change $PROFILE value in Powershell?

Question

My current $PROFILE value:

C:\Users\usrname\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

And I want to change it into:

C:\Users\usrname\.config\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

How can I do that? Thank you ❤.

Answer 1

@Haruki Nguyen
It builds it off of the Personal value of your user folders, so you could technically change that to C:\Users\usrname.config, but that could have other complications elsewhere. Another option is you could just have C:\Users\usrname\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 call C:\Users\usrname.config\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1.

To change the user folder change this value:
Item: HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Property: Personal
Current: C:\Users\usrname\OneDrive\Documents
New: C:\Users\usrname.config

To call the other, put this line in C:\Users\usrname\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1:

&"$($UserProfile).config\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1"  

You might also want to consider $PROFILE.AllUsersCurrentHost as an alternative as well.