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Registry oddity

Looking at modifying the registry on a virtual machine while its offline. I mount the VHDX file and can run this to load the registry PS> reg load HKLM\VHDSYS h:\windows\system32\config\system The operation completed successfully. If I perform...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2012 8:27 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell, Registry

Decoding the mounted device information

In the previous post we looked at how to read the mounted device information. The data is in binary though – if you want it readable and not all of it is readable – try this $data = @( ) Get-Item -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices | select -ExpandProperty...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2012 2:17 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell, Registry

Reading mounted device information from the registry

Interesting question about reading the registry. How do you read HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and pull out the name of the device and the associated data. Get-Item -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices returns data of this form Name ...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2012 8:41 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell, Registry

Set registry key owner

In chapter 7 of PowerShell and WMI I stated that I would post a .NET version of a script to set ownership of a registry key. The WMI method needs Vista or above so we need the .NET version for pre-Vista operating systems. function set-regkeyowner { [...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 2:47 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2. .NET, Registry

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