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#176180 - 2007-05-10 05:14 PM Copy registry key
skumflum skumflum Lurker Registered: 2007-05-10 Posts: 2	Hi’ I’m about to create an addition to a login script. I need to copy an entire registry key tree from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. To be more specific : • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383}\Version TO • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383}\Locale I’m a KIX newbie. Can somebody point me in the right direction? Regards Søren
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#176181 - 2007-05-10 05:33 PM Re: Copy registry key [Re: skumflum]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	You could use readvalue to read the values in the source reg key and use writevalue to write the stuff to the destination reg key. Writevalue does not care if the path exists or not. It will create the path if it does not exist. _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#176182 - 2007-05-10 05:33 PM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Mart]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	BTW: forgot something Welcome to the board $\:D$ _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#176192 - 2007-05-11 12:50 AM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Mart]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4402 Loc: New Jersey	Actually, read/writevalue commands are only part of the story. If you want to copy an entire subtree, you will need to play with the EnumKey and EnumValue commands as well. EnumKey is placed in a loop (as per the example in the manual) to "discover" each subkey path. For each value returned by EnumKey, you'll need to run an inner loop using EnumValue functions - this will return the name of each value in the key. Then you'll need to use ReadValue to read the data, and ReadType to determine the registry value type - you'll need this information for WriteValue. Now that you have the key, value, data, and type, you can translate the Key path from HKLM to HKCU as you need, and then use WriteValue with the key, value, data, and type arguments. The inner loop continues until an error occurs when there are no more values, and the outer loop searches for the next subkey. This process repeats until all subkeys and values are found and copied. Of course, you need to consider recursion - processing the subkeys within subkeys. As you can see, this is not a trivial process. There are several UDFs that search the registry, such as this one from Howard, which also references on by Jens. Hope this helps.. Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#176197 - 2007-05-11 09:07 AM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Glenn Barnas]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Wouln't expert/import of the section be easier ?
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#176202 - 2007-05-11 09:53 AM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Arend_]
skumflum skumflum Lurker Registered: 2007-05-10 Posts: 2	I was worried that the ”tree” stuff was difficult. I’ll try to look at one from Howard :-) Thanks
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#176210 - 2007-05-11 02:56 PM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Arend_]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4402 Loc: New Jersey	I considered using the load/unload hive commands, but the issue is to copy the structure of HKLM to HKCU for some reason - simple export/import won't work. You might also consider using the REG command to export the HKLM, then read in each line, modifying it as needed, and either using WriteValue to write to the registry, or simply writing the modified lines back to a file and importing that file. Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#176213 - 2007-05-11 03:23 PM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Glenn Barnas]
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	It all depends on how much "tree" there is to begin with. There was a round of golf a while back that was all about the registry. One could glean a lot from it. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#176216 - 2007-05-11 05:44 PM Re: Copy registry key [Re: Glenn Barnas]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Originally Posted By: Glenn Barnas I considered using the load/unload hive commands, but the issue is to copy the structure of HKLM to HKCU for some reason - simple export/import won't work. You might also consider using the REG command to export the HKLM, then read in each line, modifying it as needed, and either using WriteValue to write to the registry, or simply writing the modified lines back to a file and importing that file. Glenn Thats what I ment, REG export to file, modify where needed and import. $\:\)$
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#176235 - 2007-05-13 10:47 AM Re: Copy registry key [Re: skumflum]
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11634 Loc: Space	Are you sure you're wanting the entire tree ? Locale and Version are within that Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4340} HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4340} Is more so what you want isn't it? And why? You could do something like this, I'll leave the editing to you or one of the other guys here to assist you. You could shell out and run this REG EXPORT "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4340}" C:\WDU.REG Then you would need to open and read the C:\WDU.REG file and replace the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" with "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" You could then shell out and run REGEDIT /S C:\WDU.REG to place it into the HKEY_CURRENT_USER section.
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