Chapter 13. Registry and Software

In This Chapter:

 

Registry

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Software Administration

259

This chapter covers accessing the registry and the administration of MSI-based and non-MSI-based installations. Examples in this chapter include

  • Reading keys and values

  • Creating and deleting keys and values

  • Enumeration of installed software

  • Installation and uninstallation of software

Registry

For accessing and manipulation of the Windows registry, Windows PowerShell (WPS) provides a PowerShell Provider. This means that the navigation commandlets (Set-Location, Get-ChildItem, New-Item, Get-ItemProperty, and so on) are available in the registry.

Reading Keys

The subkeys of a registry key are as follows (alias dir hklm:\software):

Get-ChildItem hklm:\software

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