How to add a progress bar to a command in PowerShell

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Im writing a script that removes user profiles with in powershel using this command

Get-WMIObject -class Win32_UserProfile | Where {(!$_.Special) -and (!$_.loaded)} | Remove-WmiObject

How would i go about adding a progress bar to the command, so that when one profile has been removed it would go up type of thing, this is part of a gui program and the console is hidden

how would i go about adding write-progress to the command, as this command in its self is recursive, the only documentation for this is with it in loops of some form — stuart harper
– stuart harper, Commented Apr 20, 2021 at 12:34

Cpt.Whale · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-20 17:03:29Z

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I would suggest using a loop to go through each user profile if you're going to use Write-Progress. Something along the lines of.

$profiles = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_UserProfile | Where {(!$_.Special) -and (!$_.loaded)}
$num_profiles = $profiles.Count
Function Remove_Prof
{
    for ($i = 1; $i -lt $num_profiles; $i++)
        { 
        Remove-WMIObject $profiles[$i]
        Start-Sleep -m 1000  
        Write-Progress -Activity 'Removing Profiles' -Status "Deleted $i out of $num_profiles profiles" -PercentComplete (($i/$num_profiles) * 100)
        
        }
}

Remove_Prof;

You can replace/remove the sleep call - I just had that because in my test I didn't actually delete the profile(s).

edited Apr 20, 2021 at 17:03

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