Question

How can I get the physical path to an item if I know path of the .exe file?

Example:

$path = (Get-WmiObject -query "SELECT PathName FROM Win32_Service WHERE Name = 'Name of Service'").PathName

cd $path #and this command not work because $path return path with service name 

Answer 1

UPDATE: Removes all characters after the file extension and trims double quotes if it finds any:

$p = ($path -replace '^"+([^\.]+\.\w+)\s.+$','$1').Trim('"')
cd (Split-Path $p)

Get the directory of the file with the Split-Path cmdlet

 cd (Split-Path $path -Parent)

The Parent parameter is the default split location parameter so you can leave it out:

 cd (Split-Path $path)