Windows Powershell: Shortcut for change directory

There is also another way to do this:

function PP { cd C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects\ProjectName }Set-Alias shortcut `PP`

new-psdrive is your friend :

New-PSDrive -Name docs -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "C:\Users\username\Documents"cd docs:

Run this in powershell:

start notepad $profile

That will open up your profile in notepad (notepad will prompt you to create it if it doesn't exist).

Any code you write in this .ps1 file will be executed when powershell starts.

You can also set a system environment variable, like if you were to set MYPSPATH equal to C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects then you could do this:

cd $env:MYPSPATH

That could be done either manually each time, or automatically within your $profile.

Also it's unclear from your question, but it sounds like you're doing a cd for every path component.

There's no need to do that. This command that you wished for:

cd C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects\ProjectName

will work as is. If I misunderstood this point I apologize.

Something that also might be useful to you is pushd which is an alias of Push-Location. This lets you change to a new directory and easily revert back where you started with popd or Pop-Location.

PS C:\users\Xenostar> Push-Location .\Dropox\Websites\2014\ProjectsPS C:\users\Xenostar\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects> Pop-LocationPS C:\users\Xenostar>

And you can push multiple levels deep, and keep popping back to the previous ones.