{"id":8001,"date":"2015-02-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/06\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-registry-keys\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:45","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-display-registry-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-registry-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Display Registry Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display registry keys.<\/span><\/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 provide a list of registry keys that I can filter, instead of using Regedit to search?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-ItemProperty<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and point it to a specific registry hive. The following command looks for <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;software and Microsoft on the HKLM drive. It uses the&nbsp;<b>psChildName<\/b>&nbsp;property to display the registry key names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\* | select pschildname<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display registry keys. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to provide a list of registry keys that I can filter, instead of using Regedit to search? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ItemProperty&nbsp;cmdlet and point it to a specific registry hive. The following command looks for &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;software [&hellip;]<\/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":[31,356,26,3,45],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-operating-system","tag-powertip","tag-registry","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display registry keys. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to provide a list of registry keys that I can filter, instead of using Regedit to search? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ItemProperty&nbsp;cmdlet and point it to a specific registry hive. The following command looks for &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","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=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/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=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}