Script to edit a Registry for NT4?

[jmreinwald]

Hi All,

I have no idea what in the world happened, but there are a ton of "bad" references in my registry that point to items in the Recycle Bin (I think). The majority of them are DefaultIcons paths in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, so it's not really hurting anything as far as I can tell. Every single one of them starts the same way. As an example, my HKCR\rtffile\DefaultIcon path is as follows:

"D:\RECYCLERS\S-1F41~1\DC41 Files\Windows NT\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE,1"

Obviously the "RECYCLERS\S-1F41~1\DC41" should be replaced with "Program". I have been basically finding one, F3'ing through and editing as I go along. Since I know what is "bad" and what needs to go there, is there some sort of scripting I can do, sort of a foreach or something?

Thanks in advance,
Joe

 

[wolluf]

I've had various attempts at something like this (eg, used registry editing tool in old version of cleansweep - its got a multiple find/replace facility - I think I'd advise staying with what you're doing (safer inspecting all entries) - its easy to replace a raft of things you didn't want to!

Suppose you could export everything, edit the export file and import back in.. no stick with slow method.