Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Managing the Registry

PowerShell has a built-in provider, Registry, for accessing and manipulating the Registry on a local machine. The Registry hives available in this provider are HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) and HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU). These hives are represented in a PowerShell session as two additional PSDrive objects named HKLM: and HKCU:.

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The WshShell object has access to not only the HKLM: and HKCU: hives, but also HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), HKEY_USERS, and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. To access these additional Registry hives in PowerShell, you use the Set-Location cmdlet to change the location to the root of the Registry provider.

Because the Windows Registry is treated as a hierarchy data store, like the Windows file system, it can also ...