Drives and Providers
Updated: August 9, 2012
Applies To: Windows PowerShell 2.0, Windows PowerShell 3.0
The drives in Windows PowerShell are made available to your session by Windows PowerShell providers, which are .NET Framework assemblies that make the data in a specialized data store available in Windows PowerShell so that you can easily view and manage the data. For information about Windows PowerShell providers, type:
get-help about_providers
To see a list of Windows PowerShell providers, type:
get-psprovider
For a list of provider help files, type:
get-help -category provider
For information about a particular provider, type:
get-help <provider-name>
For example,
get-help registry