Vista - What does 1# mean in Powershell's prompt

Hi All,

After my workstation had a cold reboot due to "environment issues" my
Powershell now shows prompts like this instead of usual one

Windows PowerShell
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PowerTab version 0.98 PowerShell TabExpansion library
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PowerTab Tabexpansion additions enabled : True

1# 1
1
2# 2
2
3# 3
3
4# 4
4
5# 5

I've also got PowerShell Community Extensions
(http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX/) installed.

What does this prompt mean and what should be fixed to get the regular
prompt back?

The 1 in 1# represents the History ID the command you'll execute will have so you can execute it again by passing the ID to Invoke-History, pretty useful.

# in PowerShell Version 1
ihy 1

# in PowerShell Version 2 CTP
r 1

You can define your own Prompt function in the PSCX $Profile

function prompt
{
"PS " + $(get-location) + "> "
}

# ...or, if you find the Id feature you can edit the one in the $Profile

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Kiron

Thanks. I think that was my first reboot since I've installed PowerShellCX
and I don't reboot often.

"Kiron" wrote: