How can I programmatically find a users HKEY_USERS registry key using powershell?

Question

I wonder if there is a way to find a local user\'s registry key in HKEY_USERS if you know the login-name of that user on the local machine. I want to programmatically add stuff

Answer 1

$User = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($env:UserName)
$sid = $User.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).value

The above snippet gives you the SID of the logged-in user. This when appended to the HKEY_USERS givs you the right path for that username.

New-PSDrive HKU Registry HKEY_USERS
Get-Item "HKU:\${sid}"