How do I make PowerShell run as administrator start in my home directory?

Question

Whenever I run PowerShell as administrator, it starts in C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0. How do I make it start in my user's home directory instead? My $HOME has the expected value, i.e., C:\Users\<account>. Whenever I run PowerShell without administrative privileges it starts up in $HOME.

Answer 1

If you always use a shortcut you can just add the arguments:

-NoExit -Command "cd ~"

If you want this to always execute you can make a profile, to do this create the file (and missing folders on the path):

%userprofile%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1

And place the cd command (cd ~) inside it.

To allow the scripts execution on startup you need to change the execution policy to be less restrictive, run powershell as admin and execute:

Set-Executionpolicy RemoteSigned

Do this at your own risk of course. If you did you will always end up in your home folder on startup.