Set-Location C: not working as expected

[michaellwest]

Using the path C: should change to the root of C but it instead changes to C:\windows\system32\inetsrv

Example:

PS master:\> Set-Location -Path C:
PS C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\>

Verify the behavior with the path HKLM:

[AdamNaj]

As far as I can tell It's working as expected. Each PSDrive has a "current location" that is being maintained. For a drive from which the process was started it will be the location of the executable.

I suspect any other drive than C: it will land in the root. but C: in this case is special as C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\ is where the w3wp.exe lives.

The following wil yield the result you expected:

Set-Location -Path C:\

[michaellwest]

I can see how the worker process trumps my argument. Thanks for looking into it @AdamNaj . I'll make a mention of this behavior in the gitbook.