Windows PowerShell Core Provider Help Topics
Applies To: Windows PowerShell 2.0, Windows PowerShell 3.0
This section consists of an alphabetical list of the providers that are installed with Windows PowerShell. To find the help topics that describe each provider, click the provider-name link.
For a list of providers in each module, see Windows PowerShell Core Modules.
Windows PowerShell providers are .NET programs that make the data in a specialized data store available in Windows PowerShell so that you can easily view and manage it. The data that a provider exposes appears in a drive, much like a file system drive. For more information, see about_Providers.
| Provider | Description |
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Provides access to the Windows PowerShell aliases and their values. |
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Provides read-only access to X509 certificate stores and certificates. |
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Provides access to the Windows environment variables. |
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Provides access to files and directories. |
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Provides access to the functions defined in Windows PowerShell. |
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Provides access to the system registry keys and values. |
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Provides access to Windows PowerShell variables and their values. |
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Provides access to WSMan configuration information. |
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