How do I add custom entries to PowerShell's jump list?

Question

In Windows 7, when you pin an application to the taskbar, you can right-click on it to display a "jump list". For example, Windows Media Player displays your recent playlists and some common tasks.

If you pin PowerShell, the jump list is headed "Tasks" and has "Run as Administrator", etc. on it.

One thing I find myself doing each time I log on is running PowerShell as Administrator, and then running a VsVars command to set it up as a Visual Studio command prompt. On other occasions, I might want to run a different action on starting PowerShell.

Is there any way to customize the PowerShell jump list to run different scripts when I start PowerShell?

Answer 1

To Pin Scripts:

Drag them over the powershell taskbar icon, wait until the "Pin to Powershell" tooltip appears and there you go.

To run things at startup you need first define what you refer with it. Windows Startup or Powershell startup? In the first case add a task in the Taskscheduler, for the second case add what you need to run in the Powershell profile.

Edition to answer the embedded "Second Question":

To launch it as admin, in the script that your going to pin put this:

  start powershell -verb runas -argumentlist "-noexit", "-command &{YourScriptCommandsHere}"

Is not perfect solution because is going to launch two powershell, the first is going to invoke the second elevated and then is going to disappear, then you could continue using the second after the block of code that you want to execute (marked as "YourScriptCommandsHere") runs.