An exciting feature of PowerShell is that you can present things like the registry as a drive. This is accomplished with the PSDriveInfo object. If you run Get-PSDrive in PowerShell you will see all the “drives” that you can connect to. You can also create additional drives with New-PSDrive.<\/p>\n
The path to My Documents is just too darn long to type everytime I want to change to it. In PowerShell I can simplify this by assigning a drive letter to the path like this:<\/p>\n
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new-psdrive Docs -psprovider FileSystem -root “$env:Userprofile\\my documents”<\/span><\/p>\n