HFSS15: Example Searching for a Registry Key Pathname

Both administrators and ordinary users may occasionally use the UpdateRegistry command line tool to add, change or delete settings. To use this tool, the registry key pathname must be known by the user. The -GetKeys option may be used to quickly search for a key pathname if some information is known about it. For example, if the administrator knows that there is a setting related to issuing warning messages when available disk space is low, but she does not know the exact key name, the following command may list some of the keys related to disk space:

UpdateRegistry -GetKeys disk -ProductName HFSS14.0

This will display a list of all keys that match the string "disk" case insensitively. Typical output may look like the following:

Registry keys matching pattern <disk> case insensitively:

Desktop/Settings/ProjectOptions/DiskLimitForAbort: value is <0> at level <user_machine>