{"id":73831,"date":"2015-08-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/21\/powertip-use-powershell-tab-expansion-to-navigate-registry\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:32","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-tab-expansion-to-navigate-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-tab-expansion-to-navigate-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell Tab Expansion to Navigate Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use the Windows PowerShell tab expansion feature to quickly navigate the Windows registry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to explore settings in the Windows registry?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use a cmdlet like&nbsp;<b>Get-Item<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>Get-ItemProperty<\/b>, or&nbsp;<b>Get-ItemPropertyValue<\/b>, specify the drive (such as HKCU), <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and then press the&nbsp;<b>Tab<\/b>&nbsp;key to navigate the registry, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-ItemProperty HKCU:\\SOFTWARE\\ &lt;TAB&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the Windows PowerShell tab expansion feature to quickly navigate the Windows registry. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to explore settings in the Windows registry? &nbsp;Use a cmdlet like&nbsp;Get-Item,&nbsp;Get-ItemProperty, or&nbsp;Get-ItemPropertyValue, specify the drive (such as HKCU), &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and then press the&nbsp;Tab&nbsp;key to navigate the registry, for example: Get-ItemProperty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,26,3,45],"class_list":["post-73831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-registry","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the Windows PowerShell tab expansion feature to quickly navigate the Windows registry. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to explore settings in the Windows registry? &nbsp;Use a cmdlet like&nbsp;Get-Item,&nbsp;Get-ItemProperty, or&nbsp;Get-ItemPropertyValue, specify the drive (such as HKCU), &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and then press the&nbsp;Tab&nbsp;key to navigate the registry, for example: Get-ItemProperty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}