Programmatically extract key and value from Windows registry using simple Dos command line statement

The Windows Registry can be inspected from a Dos (Command Prompt) command. The key and data element I was looking for is:

Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe

Data Name: Path

The OS command we can use to extract the value of this entry:

REG QUERY “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe” /S /v Path

The result from this command looks like this:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe

     Path    REG_SZ    C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application

End of search: 1 match(es) found.