Windows timestamp registry key

Now I will create some common variables that will be used with the method. With my registry key, I need the registry handle and the name that will be supplied to the method. I had to use a StringBuilder because it is required by one of the method parameters. Now that we have enough information, we can proceed with gathering the timestamp. We know that this was successful by the return of the IntPtr 0. Any other value would mean that something happened and that would need to be investigated.

We are not quite done yet! We have the timestamp, but it is in a non-usable format and should be converted into a DateTime object using [datetime]::FromFileTime. If you compare this to what I showed earlier with the manual exporting of the registry key to a text file, you will see that these times are exactly the same.

Well, this also includes the seconds, which the exported file does not. Of course you would! I wrote a function called Get-RegistryKeyLastWriteTime that will allow you to get the registry key timestamp from either a remote or local system. The first example shows how you can pipe an existing registry key object into the function to get the timestamp. The next example runs against a remote system and allows you to specify the hive and subkey that you wish to query.

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You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Summary : Guest blogger, Rohn Edwards, talks about using Windows PowerShell to access the last-modified time stamp in the registry.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Rohn Edwards. There are also third-party tools that will let you see this information. Today, I want to show you how to do it with Windows PowerShell. As far as I can tell, WMI and. Blog posts:. Hopefully, after reading this, you can create a signature for RegEnumKeyEx on your own, if you would like to use that instead. A handle to an open registry key. At the time of this writing, the pinvoke. It turns out that.

Well, when using the Win32 functions to work with the registry, you have to open a handle to a key before you can do anything with it. After you open a handle and use it, you have to close it with a call to RegCloseKey , which requires yet another signature. The hKey parameter wants a handle to an open key. How do I know where is it writing the timestamp? I tried a sample program using Preference API.

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