Read Value from Registry

published: April 28, 2019 author: Tinu tags: PowerShell categories: PowerShell-Registry

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Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Read Single-Value from Registry
• Read Values from all Users
• See also

Copy items from a local to a remote computer using a psremote-session.

Read Single-Value from Registry

function Get-RegistryValue {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
        [Object]$args
    )
    $ret = $null
    if(Test-Path "$($args.Hive):\$($args.Path)"){
        Try{
            $ret = Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path "$($args.Hive):\$($args.Path)" -Name $args.Property
        }
        catch{
            $ret = $null
        }
    }
    return $ret
}

$params = @{
    Hive     = 'HKLM'
    Path     = 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion'
    Property = 'ReleaseId'
}

return (Get-RegistryValue -args $params)

Read Values from all Users

$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

if(-not(Get-PSDrive -Name 'HKU')){
    New-PSDrive HKU Registry HKEY_USERS
}

$path = '\Control Panel\International'

Get-ChildItem "HKU:\" | ForEach {
    if (Test-Path "HKU:\$($_.Name)\$($path)"){
        @{"$($_.Name)" = "$(Get-ItemPropertyValue "HKU:\$($_.Name)\$($path)" -Name "LocaleName")"}
        if($error){
            $error.Clear()
        }
    }
}

See also

Get-ItemPropertyValue on Microsoft Docs.

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