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TimmyD
TimmyD

Reputation: 81

get-itemproperty not returning all properties

Hope you can help...

Executing the below powershell (I'm a newbie btw) to get the value of a registry entry and when I execute the first powershell statement I get all the properties I'd expect but when I execute the second statement against VisualStudio\10.0 it returns no properties even though in the registry editor there are a bunch of properties (including InstallDir which is the one I'm chasing!) staring me in the face. Can you help??

Thanks

PS C:\DEV\GeoMet> Get-ItemProperty -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion


    PSPath                   : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    PSParentPath             : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
    PSChildName              : CurrentVersion
    PSDrive                  : HKLM
    PSProvider               : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry
    SM_GamesName             : Games
    SM_ConfigureProgramsName : Set Program Access and Defaults
    CommonFilesDir           : C:\Program Files\Common Files
    CommonFilesDir (x86)     : C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
    CommonW6432Dir           : C:\Program Files\Common Files
    DevicePath               : C:\Windows\inf
    MediaPathUnexpanded      : C:\Windows\Media
    ProgramFilesDir          : C:\Program Files
    ProgramFilesDir (x86)    : C:\Program Files (x86)
    ProgramFilesPath         : C:\Program Files
    ProgramW6432Dir          : C:\Program Files


PS C:\DEV\GeoMet> Get-ItemProperty -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
PS C:\DEV\GeoMet>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2118

Answers (2)

latkin
latkin

Reputation: 16812

You are almost surely looking at the 32-bit reg hive on a 64 bit machine. Double check your regedit path - is it really HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0?

I see properties (e.g. InstallDir) in the 32 bit key, but not the 64 bit key.

This would be the proper query if so:

Get-ItemProperty -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0

Upvotes: 1

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301587

This is what I see on regedit:

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So, the output you get from Get-ItemProperty is correct. For the other path you mentioned, you will see that there are lots of values.

The ones you see under the 10.0 like Debugger etc can be got by using Get-ChildItem cmdlet.

Upvotes: 0

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