A long time ago I asked this question how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell? – Stack Overflow [WayBack] but forgot to schedule a post about it.
It’s an interesting scenario, so lets start with a log of the outcome (it’s on my ix500 scanning VM which has Office15 a.k.a. Office 2013 installed) of this script:
$path = 'hkcu:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Extensions'
$key = Get-Item $path
$key
$namevalues = $key | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Property |
ForEach-Object {
[PSCustomObject] @{
Name = $_;
Value = $key.GetValue($_)
}
}
$namevalues | Format-Table
$matches = $namevalues |
Where-Object {
$_.Name -match '^xls' `
-or $_.Value -match 'msaccess.exe$'
}
$matches | Format-Table
It outputs this:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 