Seeking Method to Identify Applied Settings and Corresponding PowerShell Profile?

The user asked about PowerShell profiles and how to see the settings that are applying, and if OneDrive could be causing confusion. It was suggested to check the $profile, $profile.currentuserallhost and allusersallhosts commands, as well as the provided links from Microsoft, and the host (Powershell-ISE, Visual studio code, powershell.exe, etc) might also be introducing settings. The issue was eventually solved due to an extra tick.

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I have a newbie powershell question related to PS profiles. Is there a way to see what settings are applying and from what PS profile? Thanks in advanced

As far as I’m aware your profile is essentially just a powershell script that runs when you start a powershell instance.

You can see the current profile with $profile though

yeah there is $profile but also $profile.currentuserallhost and allusersallhosts etc…which i checked those but i am not seeing anything in them but still seems like something is overwriting my settings. well specifically my oh-my-posh theme. i have it working fine on other machines just don’t know what i did lol 🥴🙂

as far as I’m aware, the host (Powershell-ISE, Visual studio code, powershell.exe, etc) can introduce things as well

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/windows-powershell/ise/how-to-use-profiles-in-windows-powershell-ise?view=powershell-7.3 and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/shell/using-light-theme?source=recommendations&view=powershell-7.3

Though again, depending on the host you use, things might be different.yeah, and i am wondering is Onedrive might be adding to the confusion since it syncs the profiles are in the documents folder

the culprit was an extra tick ` i guess my wife is right i need some glasses. lol. For some reason it was defaulting to a theme instead of just breaking so that was throwing me off. Thanks for the assistance..

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