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For more detailed descriptions of the customizations follow the links below:

• Key bindings: These are done using PSReadLine, source code.
• Output customizations

Information about external modules:

• PowerShell Arsenal: Useful commands for reverse engineering. Actually, I am using a clone that fixes a couple of issues.
• PowerShell Community Extensions: Plenty of useful commands
• PowerShell Cookbook: It contains some useful commands (e.g. Invoke-ElevatedCommand), and some very advanced commands. A few commands seem to be brittle, and do not work (e.g. Search-Bing`).
• PowerShell Git: A number of useful git related commands, e.g. Get-GitStatus. Is also defines a version of the prompt that displays the status of the current repository. However, I have found that to be slow, and don't use it. It can be re-enabled with Set-GitPrompt (and Set-NormalPrompt to go back to the normal prompt).
• TypePx: Adds a number of useful extensions to standard types.
• xUtility (source: source]: A few interesting commands, such as Test-AdminRights and Set-Title.
• PowerShell VsVars: It imports Visual Studio environment variables to the shell. I am using a clone that works with VS2015 (VS "14") and allows use of x64, with Set-VsVarsExtended. The new VS "15" makes a number of changes that makes discovery of the installation path different. This module needs some serious work.

There are more interesting modules. You can check for them by invoking .\extras.ps1 from the repo's root.