Powershell profile “on exit” event?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to automatically do some clean up tasks when the PowerShell session quits. So for example in my profile file I start a process which needs to run in t

Answer 1

There is the Register-EngineEvent cmdlet which you can use to attach an event handler to the Exiting event:

Register-EngineEvent PowerShell.Exiting -Action { ... }

Note however, that this event will not be fired if you close the console window.