### Accessing things using cd
PSDrives
```ps
Get-PSDrive
cd Env:
cd HKCU:
```

Network share
```ps
* way of accessing network shares via powershell
New-PSDrive -name BOING -psprovider FileSystem -root \
\hostname\sharename
cd BOING:
```

### Outputting to files

Writing to plain text files
```ps
Get-ChildItem -path C:\Windows | Select-Object -Property Name | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 WindowsDir.txt
```

### Location of users folders
```ps
(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).NameSpace('shell:Downloads').Self.Path
```
and you can save this to a variable via
```ps
Set-Variable dlpath (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).NameSpace('shell:Downloads').Self.Path
```
and then use via
```ps
cd $dlpath
```

### Misc Examples
Do something when GoogleChrome downloads have finished.
```ps
while ( { get-item \\machine-name\share-name\etc\Downloads\*.cr* | measure-object | select-object { $_.Count -gt 0 } } ) { echo hello ; sleep 1 ; } ; calc
```
where in this instance it launches the calculator when downloads are done.

### Preventing HID Devices From Waking
See [here](https://w.allsup.co/lang/ps/PowerManagement).

## *Nix equivalents
Which:
```ps
Get-Command <cmdname>
Get-Command wt | select-object -property Source

# These two do the sae
Get-Command wt | foreach { $_.Source }
(get-command wt).Source

# Copy to clipboard
Get-Command wt | foreach { $_.Source } | clip
```

## Am I Admin
```ps
if (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole(`
[Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
Write-Host "Not running as Administrator." -ForegroundColor Red
}
else {
Write-Host "Running as administrator." -ForegroundColor Green
}
```