The Powershell documentation erroneously states CurrentUser profiles are stored in the User's home directory

[bavalpey]

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The powershell documentation states:

You can create profile scripts that run for all users or just one user, the CurrentUser. CurrentUser profiles are stored in the user's home directory.

This is absolutely, unequivocall, incorrect. The user's home directory is %USERPROFILE%. Because of some absolute nonsense, Powershell's default is to store these in C:Users\username\Documents

Which is absurd by the way. I don't want my configuration files appearing in Documents, and I'm not sure this is a reasonable default for anyone, either.

While I'm posting this, is there any way to configure powershell to use a different path for this profile file? Editing the registry key as discussed here is unreasonable as this has gross ramifications elsewhere. (Can someone point me to the place where I can request this to be changed?)

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/shell/creating-profiles?view=powershell-7.5

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs/blob/main/reference/docs-conceptual/learn/shell/creating-profiles.md

Author

@sdwheeler

Document Id

c3b21d50-9ab5-ad3c-316a-330a460a5dd0

[sdwheeler]

There is no way to change the location that PowerShell uses for the profile scripts.
You can make this suggestion at https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/discussions

[bavalpey]

There is no way to change the location that PowerShell uses for the profile scripts. You can make this suggestion at https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/discussions

That's a shame. Thanks for the pointer.

The documentation bug still holds, though.

[bavalpey]

This is still misleading. The location is not the home directory on windows. You should remove that sentence.

[sdwheeler]

The profiles are under the user's home directory. The exact location varies based on version and OS. The example shows the actual paths.

This is a how to article. The reference documentation is in about_Profiles.