Deleting a registry key

[bazcurtis]

Hi,

I am trying to uninstall an old copy epolicy from my client machines. Some of them have failed despite running the uninstaller from a log script.

I know which reistry key I need to delete. How can I do this from a batch file. Could I just leave the key with no content, save it and imprt that to my clients. I know I can do that from a batch file, but obviously I would much rather delete the whole key.

Any solutions would be most helpful.

Best wishes

Michael Curtis

 

[AussieClint]

Michael,

You could create a vbscript file with the following contents and call it from a batch file.

Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell&quot
WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\TheSoftwareKeyIWishToDelete"



For Example:

WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft"

Would delete the entire Microsoft key. Not that I advise to do this one. Or if you dont want to delete the entire key but just the value

WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\theValueIWishToDelete"

HTH

Clint

 

[dzisk2]

Try using Reg.exe from the resource kit. Here's the syntax:
c:\reg delete HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run \\%1 /force

\\%1 can be used as the variable to insert several machine names at a time from another batch file.

/force forces the deletion without user intervention.