How to Get Registry Value in PowerShell

PowerShell provides a built-in cmdlet Get-ItemProperty to get the properties of the specified items, including the registry values.

The following methods can be used to get a registry value in PowerShell.

Method 1: Get Registry Value in PowerShell using Get-ItemProperty

# specify the registry key path
$registryPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EventLog\Application\"

# Get the registry value
Get-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath

This example returns the registry value for the specified path to the registry key $registryPath using the Get-ItemProperty cmdlet in PowerShell.

Method 2: Get the Registry Values with Get-ItemPropertyValue

# specify the registry key path
$registryPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EventLog\Application\"

# Get the registry value
Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path $registryPath -Name "MaxSize"

This example returns the MaxSize property value of the specified registry key $registryPath using the Get-ItemPropertyValue.

The following examples show how to use these methods.

Get Registry Value in PowerShell using Get-ItemProperty

To get registry value in PowerShell, you can use the Get-ItemProperty cmdlet. This command uses the -Path parameter to retrieve the registry value details from the path specified.

The following example shows how to do it with syntax.

# specify the registry key path
$registryPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EventLog\Application\"

# Get the registry value
Get-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath

Output:

In this example, the $registryPath variable holds the path to the registry key. The Get-ItemProperty cmdlet returns the registry value for the specified registry key.

Get the Registry Values with Get-ItemPropertyValue

Another way to get registry key values is by using the Get-ItemPropertyValue cmdlet in PowerShell. It gets the current value of a property located in a specified path.

The following example shows how to do this with syntax.

# specify the path to the registry key
$registryPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EventLog\Application\"

# Get the registry value
Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path $registryPath -Name "MaxSize"

Output:

In this example, the $registryPath variable holds the path to the registry key. The Get-ItemPropertyValue cmdlet in PowerShell retrieves a specific value from a registry key.

Conclusion

I hope the above article on getting registry value in PowerShell using the Get-ItemProperty cmdlet is helpful to you.

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