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In a previous tip we illustrated how to convert an internal PowerShell path format to a real path. Here is a use case. This code recursively searches through HKEY_CURRENT_USER and dumps all Registry keys that contain the word “powershell” (simply replace the search word with anything else that you may be looking for):
Get-ChildItem -Path HKCU:\ -Include *PowerShell* -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -Property *Path* | Out-GridView
The code outputs all properties that have “Path” in it, and as you will see, Registry keys have two properties that contain the key location: PSPath and PSParentPath. Both use the internal PowerShell path format.
To simply dump the Registry paths for all keys meeting your search criteria, try this:
Get-ChildItem -Path HKCU:\ -Include *PowerShell* -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach-Object { Convert-Path -Path $_.PSPath }
