Powershell get registry key value | Multiple Remote Computers

How to check registry key value on any windows workstation or a server operating system, using a Powershell script this article explains how we can get a registry value, here are simple steps. When there is a need to check the registry value or property of a registry key then it’s easy through Powershell,  there is a command Get-ItemProperty retrieves the value. This article explains how to pull the registry value on remote computers as well. Syntax Get-ItemProperty example 1

Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion -Name "SM_GamesName"

Output

SM_GamesName : Games
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

if you want to get only the value then we have to store the output in a variable, see how it looks.

$value=Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion -Name “SM_GamesName”

To retrieve the key value we need to use a variable.

$value.SM_GamesName #output registry key value as below. Games

How to get a registry value on remote computers Let’s see how to remove a local account on multiple remote computers. We need to create a file for storing all the servers or multiple machines list, I named it as Allservers.txt for and saved it in my local machine c:\temp\Allservers.txt

$Allserers = get-content -path "C:\temp\Allservers.txt"
foreach ($oneserver in $allservers)
{
write-host "Currently The Script is Running on"$oneserver
$value =Invoke-Command -ComputerName $onecomputer -ScriptBlock {Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion -Name "SM_GamesName}
$value.SM_GamesName 
}

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