New registery example

Author: ninmonkey

Pwsh/Other/QueryRegistryKeysWithResults.ps1

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+$regKeyPaths = @(
+    "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender",
+    'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System',
+    'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CI\Config'
+)
+$iterCount = 0
+# Loop through each registry path
+$query =  @( foreach ($regPath in $regKeyPaths) {
+    $result = [ordered]@{
+        Iter     = ($IterCount++)
+        HasError = $false
+        NoProps  = $true
+        NoValues = $true
+        Path     = $RegPath
+    }
+    try {
+        $result.ItemProps = Get-ItemProperty -Path $regPath
+        $result.Values    = $result.ItemProps |
+            Select-Object -ExcludeProperty PSPath, PSParentPath, PSChildName, PSProvider
+    } catch {
+        $result.HasError = $true
+    } finally {
+        $result.NoProps  = $result.ItemProps.Count -eq 0
+        $result.NoValues = $result.Values.Count -eq 0
+        [pscustomobject]$result
+    }
+})
+
+$query|Ft -auto
+$Query.count
+
+# then you can drill down into individual queries
+$Query[0]