PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

Adding named values to registry keys

When you are interacting with the registry, you typically view and edit named values or properties that are contained with in the keys and sub-keys. PowerShell uses several cmdlets to interact with named values. The first is the get-itemproperty cmdlet which allows you to retrieve the properties of a named value. The proper syntax for this cmdlet is to specify get-itemproperty to use the –path argument to specify the location in the registry, and to use the –name argument to specify the named value.

The second cmdlet is new-itemproperty, which allows you to create new named values. The proper syntax for this cmdlet is specifying new-itemproperty, followed by the –path argument and the location where you want ...