Registry Parsing

[Wenadude]

Hi

I need to write a value to the registry to set the screen saver (SCRNSAVE.exe) and to make it active in all users.

All user GUIDs start with S-1-5-........(.....=rest of GUID number which is different per user and per machine.)

I cannot work out how to read just the first section of the GUID so as to write to it.

For testing purposes, I am just trying to read it for now(unsuccessfully)

regread("HKEY_USERS\%S-1-5-%\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP","FONTSMOOTHING"

Any clues for a newbie?

Thanks

Alistair

[rudi]

Hi.

Welcome to the forum!

What you need is:

1.) use regenumkey() to step through all user account keys, see help file

If the values found are put into the variable $NextKey, then...

2.) compare, if it's a "User Key":

if stringleft($NextKey,6) = "S-1-5-" then .... (modify the values you want to)

regards, Rudi.

[Wenadude]

Hi Rudi

Thanks for your help.

I used the first part of your advice and got it to work.

Much appreciated

Alistair

South Africa