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I'm trying to enter the "Dreaded" HKLM (local machine/Default user) which is normally protectd from editing...except in the case of admin users, naturally.

{pardon the blatant rip of my post to ARS}

You see "regedit /s " works *only* if the entry is in the HKCU (current user) and another context (that escapes me at the moment). (the /s is silent operation...don't want confirmation if it works, but will come up if it fails).
The same rules apparently apply to kix's writevalue also. Grrrr.

At any rate, there is a super user utils (name "SU" of course) that will allow me to make a kix script/batch file and exec it on the local machine as an admin user...one problem: I can't get su to do what voodoo it should do. [Mad]

Now I know that security wise it is rather stupid to have the bat/kix file stored in plain text..so when/if I get this working I'll do the kixcrypt thing.

The only thing I have not tried yet is to copy the reg files, exec files and all that to the machines (su is already deployed, as is suss the system service).

Grant you, it is prolly silly of me to try this as I have maybe 2 dozen or so workstation I admin, but, despite my lack of programming skills I want to learn this (kix/automation/better admin'ing) as it will help me in the future.

I suppose moving from C/C++ programming, to Hardware dude, to tech support to webmaster to sysadmin sort of proves the theory of entropy correct. [Wink]