Powershell: High Performance Registry Search

Find a high performance registry search implementation through powershell here. Sample searches can be found here. You could search based on;

a. Registry Path Names

b. Registry Value Names

c. Registry Values

Like match would be the default. You could specifiy (-searchExact) for exact matches. The implementation provides a wrapper over the native ‘REG QUERY’ command line tool. Native registry search through Powershell lacks performance, pretty slow and runs for hours in certains cases.

Sample: (Search-Registry -tokenToSearch "aero.theme" -tokenType Value -pathsToSearch @("HKLM"))

Searches registry values having the string token “aero.theme”