Script to add Windows Gadget to user profile (PowerShell)

Introduction

This PowerShell script demo illustrates how to add windows gadget to user profile.

Scenarios

This question is asked by users in the TechNet forum. They just want to add windows gadget to user profile.

Script

Step 1: Click Start, type powershell in the search box on the Start Menu, right-click the Windows PowerShell icon, and then click Run Windows PowerShell as administrator. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.

Step 2: Run the script in the Windows PowerShell Console, type the command: Import-Module <Script Path> at the prompt.For example, Type Import-Module C:\AddWindowsGadgetToUserProfile.psm1 This is shown in the following figure.

Step 3: We can type the command Get-Help Add-OSCWindowsGadgets to display the entire help file for this function, such as the syntax, parameters, or examples.

Step 4: The script has three parameters:

ComputerName: Specifies the computer which you want to run the add operation.
GadgetSource: Specifies the path of Windows Gadgets source.
UserName: Specifies the name of user profile.

You must specify two main parameters with the command. For example, type Add-OSCWindowsGadgets -ComputerName “win7-2-pc” -GadgetSource “C:\Resource” -Verbose command as shown below:

Or you can specify a user name profile with command.

Note: You may need to reboot or log off of windows for the change to take effect.

Here are some code snippets for your references. To get the complete script sample, please click the download button at the beginning of this page.

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if($UserName)
{
    Write-Verbose "copy the entire contents of $GadgetSource to $GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar"
    #copy items to specify user profile folder
    Copy-Item -Path "$GadgetSource\*" -Destination "$GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar" -Force -Recurse
}
else
{
    $AllUsers = Get-ChildItem $GadgetDestination -Exclude Public
    foreach($User in $AllUsers)
    {
        $UserName = $User.Name
        Write-Verbose "copy the entire contents of $GadgetSource to $GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar"
        #copy items to each user profile folder
        Copy-Item -Path "$GadgetSource\*" -Destination "$GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar" -Force -Recurse
    }
}

if($UserName) 
{ 
    Write-Verbose "copy the entire contents of $GadgetSource to $GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar" 
    #copy items to specify user profile folder 
    Copy-Item -Path "$GadgetSource\*" -Destination "$GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar" -Force -Recurse 
} 
else 
{ 
    $AllUsers = Get-ChildItem $GadgetDestination -Exclude Public 
    foreach($User in $AllUsers) 
    { 
        $UserName = $User.Name 
        Write-Verbose "copy the entire contents of $GadgetSource to $GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar" 
        #copy items to each user profile folder 
        Copy-Item -Path "$GadgetSource\*" -Destination "$GadgetDestination\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar" -Force -Recurse 
    } 
}

Prerequisite

Windows PowerShell 2.0

Additional Resources

Set-ItemProperty