I ran into the exact same issue a couple of weeks ago. I never could get the change reg value run NET START approach to work. Here's what I ended-up using:
Code:
; Change the Remote Registry Service startup-type to manual
SHELL 'sc config remoteregistry start= demand'
; Start the Remote Registry Service
SHELL 'sc start remoteregistry'
Keep in mind, SC.exe only installs as a default on WinXP and newer. If you want this to work with Win2k, you will need to get SC.exe off of the resource kit and either copy it to the target machines or run it from @SCRIPTDIR.
