Get-WinHomeLocation

NAME Get-WinHomeLocation



SYNOPSIS

Gets the Windows GeoID home location setting for the current user account.





SYNTAX

Get-WinHomeLocation [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

The Get-WinHomeLocation cmdlet gets the value of the user GeoID setting and returns a .NET GeoID object. The Windows GeoID setting is a user

setting that describes the home location (that is, the country or region) of the current user account. Applications that require the current user

account????????s home location, such as a driver for a television tuner application, can use this setting.



A table of GeoIDs is available at Table of Geographical Locations.





PARAMETERS

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS

GeoID



A 32-bit signed number that uniquely identifies a geographical location.





Example 1



PS C:\\>Get-WinHomeLocation

HomeLocation Description



---- -----------



244 United States



This command returns the GeoID setting and its display name for the current user account.



RELATED LINKS

Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=287340

RegionInfo.GeoId Property

Set-WinHomeLocation