How to get registry value using cmd

HI ALL,

While I was working on automation somewhere, I came across situation where I need registry value to validate in script. so hunt began guess simply typing reg command in cmd and wow the command return valid.

So after looking help I understand  that either export will help me or query

Task was to get the firewall setting firewall state of windows, so after googling  I got the below path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\

Then running reg query path-to-query  got expected out output

C:\>reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\Dom
ainProfile\

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile
    DisplayNotification    REG_DWORD    0x1
    DefaultInboundAction    REG_DWORD    0x1
    AllowLocalIPsecPolicyMerge    REG_DWORD    0x1
    AllowLocalPolicyMerge    REG_DWORD    0x1
    DefaultOutboundAction    REG_DWORD    0x0
    EnableFirewall    REG_DWORD    0x0

Simply using findstr will give us expected output 

C:\>reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\Dom

ainProfile\ | findstr /i "Enable"

    EnableFirewall    REG_DWORD    0x0

So using reg query you can query any registry key  and using reg export you can export the key into specific files


Below is the quick powershell  script which checks  verify the key value

Script:

::TITLE :- registry verifier using command line #Author :- Kaustubh Padwad #Copyright (C) 2016 Kaustubh Padwad #Contact :- kingkaustubh @ me .com echo "Please Enter key to verify" $key = Read-Host 'Enter key path here' $value = Read-Host 'Enter Value Here' $regvalue = reg query $key | findstr /i $value if ($regvalue -match $value) {echo "Key Match "} else {echo "No Match found"}

Sample Output:

-Kaustubh