editing the registry with vbscript 2

[uucutech]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me out with getting these registry entries into the windows registry via vbscript:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Symitar\SFW\2.0\Browser Options]
"Startup Page"="

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

"Information Page"="

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Symitar\SFW\2.0\Browser Options]
"Startup Page"="

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

"Information Page"="

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symitar\SFW\2.0\Browser Options]
"Startup Page"="

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

"Information Page"="

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

We recently migrated to windows 2003 and each machine needs to have these entries for this app to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Dustin

 

[PHV]

Why not simply create a .REG file either double-clicked in an explorer window or launched by the WshShell.Run method in the script ?

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[uucutech]

Thanks PHV,

I would do it that way, but i want the process to be completely transparent to the user. Is this possible with vbscript?

Thanks!

Dustin

 

[PHV]

Yes:
Set WshShell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "regedit /s \path\to\regfile.reg"

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[uucutech]

So if i use this it won't ask the user to confirm a registry entry that will be added?

Thanks,

Dustin

 

[PHV]

Yes, due the /s switch.

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[uucutech]

Thanks PHV!

That worked splendidly.

Dustin

 

[uucutech]

Actually i Take that back.....after 1 day of incorporating this into our login script everyone was getting errors saying that they couldn't run regedit because some DLL was missing. We lock down all of our machines with group policy, so I'm guessing that's why it didn't work. If there is a way to get those registry entries added with using straight vbscript that would be awesome.

Thanks again for all your help!


Dustin

 

[mrmovie]

look on this forum for
WshShell.RegWrite method

so something like

WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symitar\SFW\2.0\Browser Options\Startup Page", "

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symitar\SFW\2.0\Browser Options\Information Page", "

http://10.1.1.23/cuweb/home.htm"

 

[uucutech]

That's what i was looking for MrMovie....works like a charm......have a star for your help!

Thanks to both of you for your solutions, i really appreciate it.

Take care,

Dustin