Scripting registry edits across all users.

[brook011]

First off I want to say that Autoit is a fantastic program. I've been looking for something to automate my repair solutions, and this is way beyond what I could ever ask for. That being said, I've been working with regread, regwrite, and regdelete, and so far I've been successful, up until today. I realized all of the keys I'm trying to eventually script delete are in HKU\SID\ and I'm not sure how to go about removing those, and have it function on every machine in the environment. I saw an older post about deleting all keys, I'd think you have to first write something to first poll the system's SID's and then somehow have it cycle through each SID until it got to the end, but I'm not sure. Any insight on this would be appreciated.

[mikell]

Did you have a look at the example in the helpfile for RegEnumKey() ?

[brook011]

I saw an example online and on another post here, fortunately, that was trying to get the SIDs, and I think I have an idea how it works. If I were to poll the registry with $var0 = regenumkey("hku64userssoftwaremicrosoft...", $i) and then have $i = +1, this is where I get a little confused as to using the variable in this data to run say a regdelete on $var0. I'm still new to this, I just set out a challenge to myself to create a manual uninstaller. If there are other examples worth me reading I would appreciate that as well, as seeing the scripts in use helps me understand autoit better Thanks for your response.

Edited May 6, 2013 by brook011

[careca]

All you do is grab the example from the help file and tweak a bit...

So to delete the keys under a certain key...

For $i = 1 To 10
    Local $var = RegEnumKey("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE", $i)
    If @error <> 0 Then ExitLoop
    RegDelete....the key to delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE" & $i
;MsgBox(4096, "SubKey #" & $i & " under HKLM\Software: ", $var) we dont need this
Next

If i got your problem right...

[brook011]

Thanks Careca, that makes sense, though I was doing some thinking and I realized I really wouldn't run into many situations where I would need to scan multiple SIDs. I should have been focusing on keeping it simple and functional. Thanks I'm still a bit confused as to the difference between regread and regenumkey/val.

[careca]

Well, its like, read to retrieve a specific value from a specific key, enum to enumerate the keys/values inside a key.

Edited May 7, 2013 by careca

[brook011]

Ahhh I see, so I could do regenumkey("hku64", "") and that would poll entire users key. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

[careca]

Always glad to be able to help, as others helped and still do help me.