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Re: EUPHORIA Digest - 13 May 2000 to 14 May 2000 (#2000-136)

• Posted by Falkon 1313 <Falkon1313 at AOL.COM> May 15, 2000
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From:    Greg Phillips <i.shoot at REDNECKS.COM>

>Has anyone written any programs for manipulating the Windows registry?  More
>specifically, any functions for deleting keys?  Adding them and modifying
>them is simple enough to achieve with a *.reg file, but there doesn't appear
>to be any easy way to delete keys (besides going in and editing the registry
>manually).

I normally do that sort of thing with a DOS batch file.  There are Windows
API functions for it, and VBscript/Javascript ways to do it, but I don't know
them.  If the command-line/batch file/system( command, 2 ) method is good
enough for you, these are the switches:

REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] filename1
REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] /C filename2
REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] /E filename3 [regpath1]
REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] /D regpath2

  /L:system       Specifies the location of the SYSTEM.DAT file.
  /R:user         Specifies the location of the USER.DAT file.
  filename1       Specifies the file(s) to import into the registry.
  /C filename2    Specifies the file to create the registry from.
  /E filename3    Specifies the file to export the registry to.
  regpath1        Specifies the starting registry key to export from.
                  (Defaults to exporting the entire registry).
  /D regpath2     Specifies the registry key to delete.