Registry Address appends with folder address, throws error ?!

Question

Hi,

I have the below code which adds a newKey in the Registry, then adds Property and Value to the Key.

$reg = "Registry::\"

$keyPath = Join-Path -Path $reg -ChildPath 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures'

$keyPath

$regPath = New-item -Path $keyPath -Name "010103000F0000F0A00000000F0000F02C87FF61F728E3750B595CBC8787E88B96F707107614712C139EE8F64A2CFB3C"

$regPath.Name

New-ItemProperty -Path $regPath.Name -Name "NetworkName" -Value "DOMAIN" -PropertyType String

Which results in the below output:

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration> $reg = "Registry::\"

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration> $keyPath = Join-Path -Path $reg -ChildPath 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures'

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration> $keyPath

Registry::\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration> $regPath = New-item -Path $keyPath -Name "010103000F0000F0A00000000F0000F02C87FF61F728E3750B595CBC8787E88B96F707107614712C139EE8F64A2CFB3C"

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration> $regPath.Name

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\010103000F0000F0A00000000F0000F02C87FF61F728E3750B595CBC8787E88B96F707107614712C139EE8F64A2CFB3C

New-ItemProperty : Cannot find path

'C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Cur

rentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\010103000F0000F0A00000000F0000F02C87FF61F728E3750B595CBC8787E88B96F707107614712C139E

E8F64A2CFB3C' because it does not exist.

At line:1 char:1

+ New-ItemProperty -Path $regPath.Name -Name "NetworkName" -Value "DOMA ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The variable $regPath.Name results in the absolute path of the Key as in the code above, when I pass it to the next command for some reason its appending the $regPath.Name value with C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Configuration\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE address instead of parsing it as a registry address.

Any idea what's going on ?

Thank You

Answer 1

Got this working.

Its suppose to be $regPath.PSPath instead of $regPath.Name

New-ItemProperty -Path $regPath.PSPath -Name "NetworkName" -Value "DOMAIN" -PropertyType String

Answer 2

Got this working.

Its suppose to be $regPath.PSPath instead of $regPath.Name

New-ItemProperty -Path $regPath.PSPath -Name "NetworkName" -Value "DOMAIN" -PropertyType String