Installer should start PS Core with user's home dir as the working dir

Steps to reproduce

Install PS Core rc2 and at the select check the box to start PowerShell.
Find PowerShell Core in the task bar, right-click it and select "Pin to taskbar"

Expected behavior

PowerShell Core as started by the installer, starts in my home dir.
PowerShell Core as started by the taskbar icon, starts in my home dir.

Actual behavior

PowerShell Core in both cases starts in C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6.0.0-rc.2.

I wind up having to edit the taskbar shortcut's properties to change the "Start in:" location to %USERPROFILE% - which works but I shouldn't have to do this. I suspect other folks will use the PS Core started by the installer as the easy means to get PS Core pinned to their taskbar.

If the installer could set the working dir to the current user's home dir before launching PowerShell, that would probably fix both scenarios.

Environment data

> $PSVersionTable
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.0.0-rc.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    v6.0.0-rc.2
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.16299
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Keith Hill (@rkeithhill)

Keith Hill (@rkeithhill) My branch here has modified the installer to launch PowerShell when having ticked the checkbox as pwsh.exe -NoExit -Command Set-Location $env:HOME. However, if I then right-click on the shell and pin it to the taskbar, the Start in is still the installation location of pwsh.

Try changing the Directory="INSTALLFOLDER" attribute. Hopefully WiX has a predefined variable for the user's home dir.

Looks like you can use either [%USERPROFILE] or [%HOMEDRIVE][%HOMEPATH]. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9635813/how-can-i-reference-the-users-home-directory-in-wix The last answer has a number of WiX steps that you might need to follow.

Thanks for the pointers. I am struggling to get a valid syntax that Wix accepts at the moment but will come back to it tomorrow.

The last time I looked into this, I couldn't find a way to get this to work because the environment variables get resolved at install time, not runtime. Also tried to escape the string so it shows up as literally %USERPROFILE% in the shortcut, but Wix doesn't allow it.

Looks like this isn't actually fixed. Working on a PR.

Yup, just noticed that.

The new -WorkingDirectory parameter should make it possible to overcome WiX's syntax limitations. One can already configure a shortcut manually after installation.

Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister)

Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister) yeah, I think what happened is that Ilya (@iSazonov) made a fix, but we reverted it planning on using the new -WorkingDirectory parameter, but the work to actually add that was missed. I'll have a PR submitted shortly.

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