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Back on August 14, 2018, I introduced a new utility I had written and shared via the PowerShell Gallery. It was called Show-PSDriveMenu and here’s a quick example of its usage. It lists the currently available drives, includes a marker to indicate the current drive, and allows you to change drives by entering a corresponding drive number.

The problem with the 1.0 version is that when Show-PSDriveMenu was invoked the initial time, it wouldn’t include the marker to indicate the current drive. Well, now it’s included on all the invocations, to include the very first one.

The updated script be downloaded from the PowerShell Gallery using the Install-Script command, included in the PowerShellGet module, using the below example. Be sure to include the Force parameter if you installed the 1.0 version, in order that the older version is replaced by the newer version.

PS > Install-Script -Name Show-PSDriveMenu -Scope CurrentUser

As mentioned in the original post, if you want this function (downloaded as a script file from the PowerShell Gallery), to load each time you start PowerShell, then add one of the two lines of code below to your profile script. The first is for Windows PowerShell (version 5.1 and earlier), and the second is for PowerShell Core (version 6.0 and later).

. $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts\Show-PSDriveMenu.ps1
. $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\PowerShell\Scripts\Show-PSDriveMenu.ps1