#PSTip New PowerShell drive (PSDrive)
David Moravec- 2 Min To Read
- 31 Oct, 2012
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As PowerShell drives are really useful concept, many people use it a lot. I also created some PSDrives for parts of my system I am accessing frequently. Let’s see it in my $profile. My two most frequently used drives are:
PS> Get-PSDrive -Name D[or]* | Format-Table Name, Provider, Root -Auto
Name Provider Root
---- -------- ----
Download Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem C:\Documents and Settings\Moravec\My Documents\Download
Dropbox Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem C:\Documents and Settings\Moravec\My Documents\Dropbox
My Dropbox folder–the obvious choice, and Download folder–that’s where I store all incoming files. You’ve already seen in one of the previous tips how to create a PowerShell drive. I can easily navigate to both of these drives:
PS> cd download:
PS Download:\> ls
Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Moravec\My Documents\Download
The Registry PowerShell provider doesn’t expose all of the Registry hives as PowerShell drives. By default, we only get two of them:
PS> cd download:
PS> Get-PSDrive -PSProvider Registry
Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root
---- --------- --------- -------- ----
HKCU Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKLM Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Sometimes I need also the others (especially as I frequently need to check/change/add something to HKEY_USERS). To create a new Registry PowerShell drive, you can use the following command:
PS> New-PSDrive -Name HKU -PSProvider Registry –Root HKEY_USERS
You can do the same with other Registry hives. After adding additional drives, you can access all common Registry parts easily:
PS> Get-PSDrive -PSProvider Registry
Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root
---- --------- --------- -------- ----
HKCC Registry HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
HKCR Registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKCU Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKLM Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKU Registry HKEY_USERS