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Powershell to Test If Registry key and Value exists

<#
.DESCRIPTION
    This script will test existence of registry key, registry entry and
    its value to match with required value and provide the result.
    Author: Jatin Makhija
    Website: cloudinfra.net
    Version: 1.0.0
    Version: 1.0.1 2024-02-25 USa - $valueName added in line 19
#>
#Provide registry key path 
$regPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Kofax\PDF\V1"
#Provide registry entry display name 
$valueName = "VersionLong"
#Provide registry entry expected value 
$requiredValue = "5.0.0.4.0.22567"
$regkeyexists = Test-Path -Path $regPath
if ($regkeyexists) {
   #Check if registry entry named Status exists
   $regentryexists = Get-ItemProperty -Path $regpath -Name $valueName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
   if ($regentryexists) {
   #If registry entry named Status exists, then fetch its value
    $currentValue = Get-ItemProperty -Path $regpath | Select-Object -ExpandProperty $valueName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    #Match Status registry entry value with requied value
    if ($currentValue -eq $requiredvalue) {
            Write-Host "Reg value exists and matching the required value."
        } else {
            Write-Host "Reg value exists, but does not match the required value."
            Write-Host "Current value: $currentValue"
            Write-Host "Required value: $requiredValue"
        }
    } 
    else {
        Write-Host "Registry value does not exist."
    }
} 
else {
    Write-Host "Registry key does not exist."
}

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Published: 2024-02-25

Last Updated: 2024-02-25

Input Profiles - Language & KeyBoard Identifiers

The following removes all LanguageTag's, adds de-CH and en-US with multiple keyboard layouts (aka InputMethodTips):

$1 = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$1.RemoveAll( { $args[0].LanguageTag -clike '*' } )
$1.Add("de-CH")
$1[0].InputMethodTips.Clear()              
$1[0].InputMethodTips.Add('0807:00000807')  # German_Swiss KeyBoard to 0807 i.e. de-CH
$1.Add("en-US")
$1[1].InputMethodTips.Clear()             
$1[1].InputMethodTips.Add('0409:00000807')  # German_Swiss keyboard to 0409 i.e. en-US
$1[1].InputMethodTips.Add('0409:00000409')  # English_United_State keyboard to 0409 i.e. en-US
$1[1].InputMethodTips.Add('0409:0000080c')  # French_Belgian keyboard to 0409 i.e. en-US
Set-WinUserLanguageList -LanguageList $1 -Force 

The following removes all LanguageTag's, adds en-US with multiple keyboard layouts (aka InputMethodTips):

$1 = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$1.RemoveAll( { $args[0].LanguageTag -clike '*' } )
$1.Add("en-US")
$1[0].InputMethodTips.Clear()              
$1[0].InputMethodTips.Add('0409:00000807')   # German_Swiss keyboard to 0409 i.e. en-US
$1[0].InputMethodTips.Add('0409:00000409')   # English_United_State keyboard to 0409 i.e. en-US
$1[0].InputMethodTips.Add('0409:0000080c')  # French_Belgian keyboard to 0409 i.e. en-US
Set-WinUserLanguageList -LanguageList $1 -Force 

Reference:
International Settings
automation - Changing keyboard layout in PowerShell for multiple languages - Stack Overflow

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Published: 2023-09-16

Last Updated: 2023-09-17

Return the Value of a Registry Key Name

$RegKey = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Kofax\PDF\V1"
$Name = "VersionLong"

cls
if ((Get-ItemProperty $RegKey -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).PSObject.Properties.Name -contains $Name) {
       Get-ItemPropertyValue $RegKey $Name 
   } 
   else 
   {
       Write-Host "The following Regisitry Key & Name does not exist: " -NoNewline
       Write-Host -ForegroundColor red "$RegKey\$Name"
   }

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Published: 2023-05-13

Last Updated: 2023-05-13