How to get PowerShell to display registry Data values

Question

Take the Winlogon registry section, I would like PowerShell to display the Data value for DefaultUserName.

This is as far as I have got:

Stage 1

get-itemproperty -path "hklm:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\"

Stage 2

I can append: -Name DefaultUserName

But this won't return a value.

Also other Names, despite being visible in Regedit, don't show in PowerShell, for example AutoAdminLogon.

Question, how can make PowerShell display what I can see with Regedit?

Answer 1

Does

get-itemproperty -path "hklm:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\" |% {$_.DefalutUserName} 

Work for you

Answer 2

You can try the standard command line:

reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultUserName

Answer 3

I tried the very same commands on another machine, they worked perfectly, as expected. Thus my original machine must have a faulty registry, or at the least, weird permissions.