{"id":2317,"date":"2013-12-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/30\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-registry-access\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-registry-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-registry-access\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Registry Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find registry access.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to get the ACL for a registry key?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;<span>Use the <b>Get-ACL<\/b> cmdlet on a key in a Windows PowerShell registry drive. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The following example shows access to the HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft key<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-acl HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find registry access. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to get the ACL for a registry key? &nbsp;Use the Get-ACL cmdlet on a key in a Windows PowerShell registry drive. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The following example shows access to the HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft key: Get-acl HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find registry access. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to get the ACL for a registry key? &nbsp;Use the Get-ACL cmdlet on a key in a Windows PowerShell registry drive. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The following example shows access to the HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft key: Get-acl HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}