PowerShell cannot find path to HKLM "because it does not exist

Question

_{Wednesday, December 22, 2010 3:32 PM}

Trying to learn PowerShell, watching old TechNet video intro to PS. Came to Navigating the Registry. I tried the command: Set-Location HKLM

Set-Location : Cannot find path 'C:\Users\nnnn\HKLM' because it does not exist. (Where nnnn = my profile). This is on a Windows7 machine.

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_{Wednesday, December 22, 2010 4:07 PM ✅Answered}

HKLM is the name of a 'drive'.   So it should be followed by a colon :

Set-Location HKLM:

which gets you to the root of that registry hive.  From there you can move down the hierarchy, for example:

Set-Location Software\Microsoft

_{Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:56 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

I noticed that you posted a duplicated thread that was answered:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/dea2a516-6e36-4b85-87a1-eb6c62bb6231

The answer is:

You need to add a colon after HKLM:

set-location hklm:

Best Regards

Dale

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_{Wednesday, December 22, 2010 4:05 PM}

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