Category Archives: powershell

How to change a network to private on Windows (and how to rename it)

Make a public connection private (source):

Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias <interface name> -NetworkCategory Private

Rename the adapter (source):

Get-NetAdapter -Name Ethernet | Rename-NetAdapter -NewName Renamed

I’m posting this so I can find it again next time I forget

How to output unicode in a custom powershell prompt

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(Writing this down so I can google it when I inevitably forget about it in the future)

Powershell supports Unicode in a custom prompt, but if it’s coming out garbled, then you probably forgot to save your profile.ps1 as UTF-8 WITH BOM.

This is UTF-8 (no BOM):

This is is UTF-8 w/ BOM:

Nice.

(BTW, the code for this custom prompt is here)