Registry

Registry Size

Do you know how big your registry is?

Adding non-string registry values

We recently looked at adding a string string registry value to the key we had created.

Adding a Registry value

Last time we saw how to add a registry key – this we add a string value to that key

Adding a Registry Key

We seen how to read the registry – now its time to look at writing to the registry.

At this point I have to supply the usual warnings about altering the registry – it can damage your machine if things go wrong. In addition registry errors have been blamed for the extinction of the...

Reading the Registry – time service

I recently needed to look at the time service configuration on a number of machines.  We can use what we have learned about reading registry keys with WMI to do this

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June 6, 2010  12:47 PM

List Registry subkeys

Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, Registry, WMI

We recently looked at reading Registry values.

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May 30, 2010  9:47 AM

Reading Registry values

Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, Registry

We have seen how to access the registry using the StdRegProv class. Now we look at reading from the registry. If we know the value we want to read out of the registry we can use one of the following classes

GetBinaryValue
GetDWORDValue
GetExpandedStringValue

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May 12, 2010  3:06 PM

WMI and the Registry

Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, Registry, WMI

We can use WMI to access the registry on local and remote machines – if you remember back to VBScript it was the way to access the registry. In PowerShell we have a couple of PowerShell drives available  through the provider Name          ...

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