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Greetings All,

I'm trying to write a script that will interrogate the COM Name Arbiter in the registry on a Windows 7 64 bit box to see what COM ports are currently reserved and add some reservations to it.  The ComDB value is in hex so I think I can use BitOR to compare what the reservations are to what I want them to be but I'm a little fuzzy on the use of BitOR so I might be wrong.  Here's my code....such as it is:

Local $COMDBRead = RegRead ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\COM Name Arbiter", "ComDB")
Local $COMDBreserve = "0xC003"
Local $COMDBcompare = BitOR ($COMDBreserve, $COMDBRead)
RegWrite ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\COM Name Arbiter", "ComDB", "REG_BINARY", $COMDBcompare)

Once I do the RegRead, $COMDBRead ends up being something like 0x350000 (followed by a bunch more zeros). $COMDBreserve represents the additional COM ports I want to reserve.  After doing the BitOR the new value written back to ComDB isn't right.  I think I'm doing something wrong with BitOR...can anyone point me in the right direction?  Thanks much for any help!

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BitOr works with 32 bit number, does the value retrieved from that registry key fit into 32 bits? It might be a 64 bit number, which is why it's getting changed when you use BitOr. Try it with just addition instead of BitOr and see if that changes anything, especially seeing as how the last numbers are all zeros anyways.

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Thanks BrewManNH, a buddy who was helping me on this figured out a solution which seems to work:

Global $COMDBReserve = "0xC003000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
Global $PaddedZeros = "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
$COMDBReserve = BinaryMid($COMDBReserve, 1, 4)
Local $COMDBRead = RegRead ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\COM Name Arbiter", "ComDB")
$COMDBRead = BinaryMid($COMDBRead, 1, 4)
Local $COMDBcompare = BitOR (Int($COMDBRead), Int($COMDBReserve))
$COMDBCompare = Binary($COMDBCompare) & $PaddedZeros
RegWrite ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\COM Name Arbiter", "ComDB", "REG_BINARY", $COMDBcompare)
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