Question

Take the Winlogon registry section, I would like PowerShell to display the Data value for
DefaultUserName.

This is as far as I have got:

Stage 1

get-itemproperty -path "hklm:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\"

Stage 2

I can append:

-Name DefaultUserName

But this won’t return a value.

Also other Names, despite being visible in regedit, don’t show in PowerShell, for example AutoAdminLogon.

Question: how can make PowerShell display what I can see with regedit?

Answer 1

I tried the very same commands on another machine, they worked perfectly, as expected. Thus my original machine must have a faulty registry, or at the least, weird permissions.