Help using test-path to check for the existence of a registry key in Powershell

Hello All,

I'm trying to test for the existence of a registry key using the test-path command. Here is what I'm doing:
test-path -Path 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{F66F74D4-ACF1-48EE-BF6F-2C6629581859}'

I know for a fact this exists, but the test-path is coming up as "False".

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick

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footech

8/22/2022 - Mon

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footech

7/19/2021

Note - you can actually use the full path as in regedit if you prepend it with "registry::", for example:

test-path -Path 'registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{F66F74D4-ACF1-48EE-BF6F-2C6629581859}'

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Or if you're already in the registry drive, so that the cmdlet knows to use the registry provider, your original command will work.

cd hklm:\
test-path -Path 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{F66F74D4-ACF1-48EE-BF6F-2C6629581859}'

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