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New-PSDrive – How to use PowerShell Net Use
alternative
Last updated April 7, 2022 by Rudy Mens
We all know the Net Use command that we can use to map network drives from the
command line. Although we can use Net Use in PowerShell, there is a more powerful
alternative, the New-PSDrive cmdlet.
With the New-PSDrive cmdlet, we cannot only map network drives but also create
drive mappings to local folders or registry keys on our computer. Drives created with
the cmdlet can be temporary for only the current PowerShell sessions or persistent so
they can be used in explorer.
In this article, we are going to take a closer look at all the possibilities of the New-
PSDrive cmdlet with some useful examples for you to use.
Temporary vs Persistent drives
Before we are going to take a look at how to create the network drives, I first want to
explain the difference between temporary and persistent drives.
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Temporary drives can only be used in the current PowerShell session. They won’t be
visible in Windows Explorer and will be gone when you close the PowerShell session.
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They are great to use when you need to interact with a remote folder or a long folder
path on your local computer.
Persistent drives are assigned a drive letter and therefore can also be used in Explorer.
They will remain available when you close the PowerShell session or even reboot your
computer.
Adding a new network drive with New-PSDrive
To map a network drive with PowerShell, we are going to create a persistent network
connection. This way the network drive will be available in Explorer and other tools
and not only in PowerShell.
There are a couple of required parameters to create a network connection:
Parameter Description
Name Must be an available drive letter
PSProvider Set to FileSystem for network shares and folders
Root The network location that you want to map
To make it available outside PowerShell (in Explorer)
×Persist
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So to map the network share \\VBoxSvr\Win11 and assign it the drive letter v: we can
use the following command:
1. New-PSDrive -Name V -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\VBoxSvr\Win11 -Persist Copy
New-PSDrive network mapping
The network location will now be available in Explorer or any other tool that you want
to use.
Using different credentials for the mapped network drive
Just like with Net Use we can use different credentials to open a remote network
drive. For this, we first need to create a credential object that we can use to map the
×network drive.
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1. # Get the credentials
2. $cred = Get-Credential
3.
4. # Create the drive mapping with the credentials
5. New-PSDrive -Name V -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\VBoxSvr\Win11 -Persist -
Credential $cred
Creating a Temporary Drive Mapping in PowerShell
As mentioned we can also create a temporary drive mapping with PowerShell. With
temporary mappings, we are not limited to letters only. We can give any name we
want to the mapping. Also, we can create a mapping to a local folder on our
computer.
For example, we can create a mapping to our log folder with:
1. New-PSDrive -Name Log -PSProvider FileSystem -Root c:\temp\logfiles -DescrCiopptiyon
"Log Folder"
This way we can quickly navigate to the log files with cd log: . But we can not only
navigate to the folder, we now also reference the mapping in other cmdlets. For
×example:
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1. Get-ChildItem log:
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new-PSDrive
Creating a persistent mapping to a local folder
Temporary mappings are gone after you close the PowerShell window. There is no
option to store mappings to local folders with New-PSDrive. But when you need to
access a long folder path often from PowerShell then you could add the cmdlet to
your PowerShell Profile. This way the mapping will be recreated every time you open
PowerShell.
First, open your profile: Copy
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If you get an error that your profile is not found, then follow this article to quickly
create one.
In your PowerShell profile add the following line:
1. # Create shotcuts to long folder paths Copy
2. New-PSDrive -Name Log -PSProvider FileSystem -Root c:\temp\logfiles -Description
"Log Folder" | Out-Null
Note that we added | Out-Null to the cmdlet. By default, the cmdlet will output the
results of the drive mapping. But we don’t want that every time when we open a new
PowerShell session.
Mapping Registry keys with New-PSDrive
Besides mapping network drives and folders, we can also map registry keys with the
New-PSDrive cmdlet. By default, you will find already a mapping to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER key and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. You can few these with
the command:
1. Get-PsDrive -PSProvider Registry Copy
2.
3. # Result
4. Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root
× CurrentLocation
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5. ---- --------- --------- -------- ----
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
--------------- Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry
6. HKCU
7. HKLM
If you want to create a mapping to the HKEY_USERS hives you can do the following:
1. New-PSDrive -Name HKU -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_USERS Copy
We are not limited to the top-level registry gives, you can create mappings to any
registry key you want. For example, the HKCU Windows NT key:
1. New-PSDrive -Name WinNT -PSProvider Registry -Root Copy
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT
You can now easily add, edit or remove registry keys using the create mapping:
1. # WinNT: is the mapping that we created earlier Copy
2. New-Item –Path WinNT: –Name LazyAdmin
Wrapping Up
To be honest, there is little advantage to using the New-PSDrive if you only want to
map a network share that is also available in Explorer. The Net-Use command is
×shorter and more convenient to use.
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But when you only need to create a mapping in a PowerShell session, or when you
want to create a shortcut to local folders or the registry, then the cmdlet can be quite
useful.
If you have any questions, just drop a comment below!
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