Remove part of a user path

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Removing user path.

Wuth active-setup we set a HKCU:\environment\path
with a value of $envappdata\username\hcm

On uninstall, I need removing that part of the string for each user.

I was looking for a way using Invoke-HKCURegistrySettingsForAllUsers. But I cannot figure how analysing the value finding the correct string with the username and removing it. I found it is possible to add, remove or modifyig a key but not to insert some logic leading to get the correct path with the correct username. Any idea?

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I’m not real clear on what it is you’re trying to do but from what I think you’re asking, it seems the -split operator would be of use here. Put your path in a variable, then use $Var -split "\\" to split the full path into its constituent parts. You could then reference the parts with $Var[0], $Var[1], etc.

$Var = "C:\one\two\three\four"
$Var2 = $Var -split "\\"
Write-Host "The variable `"Var2`" is now an array consisting of:"
$Var2[0]
$Var2[1]
$Var2[2]
$Var2[3]
$Var2[4]

Hope that helps.

3

Hi Francois,

You can try below script to delete/remove registry keys from all users profiles under HKCU.

$HKCURegistrySettings = {
Remove-RegistryKey -Key ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\environment\path’ -SID $UserProfile.SID -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}
Invoke-HKCURegistrySettingsForAllUsers -RegistrySettings $HKCURegistrySettings