Profiles
Profiles are special scripts that PowerShell hosts run automatically when they start a new session. Each host looks in four different locations for profile scripts, running any of them that it finds. To find where these locations are, for the host you're in, look at the $profile automatic variable:
The first thing you'll notice is that there's only one path listed. To see all of them, you have to look at the extra properties that have been spliced onto $profile:
The names of these properties should give you a good idea when each of them is ...
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