Exporting the Registry

[Dave in PNG]

I need to write a brute-force uninstaller for a particularly ill-behaved program. Because it makes over 50 registry entries, I'd like to export out the registry entries before I actually delete them so I have a "undo".

Rather than just call "reg.exe export" a bunch of times, is anyone aware of AutoIt code to read a registry entry and then create a text string that looks like a "reg export" result?

I could write something, but would rather not if it's already been done.

Thanks.

[cppman]

Should'nt be too hard.

Look in the help file under RegEnumVal(), RegEnumKey(). Also, your going to need to know how to read/write files.

steps:

1).Get an array of all the keys, and values.

2).WRite a registry file. http://www.programmerworld.net/win/registry.htm

3).Then whenever you need to "restore" it, just double click that registry file.

[Thatsgreat2345]

i do believe check the scripts and scrapts for a registry to autoit i think i remember seein one in there

[SmOke_N]

i do believe check the scripts and scrapts for a registry to autoit i think i remember seein one in there

I think Gary did one. (gafrost)

[Dave in PNG]

Thanks for the suggestions, but I really didn't find anything useful without more work.

I decided to RegToScript. That way I can write out the AU3 code needed to recreate the keys I will be deleting. If the user runs the program again and it sees the undo files (containing AU3 code), it will then INCLUDE it and execute it.

Thanks again.

Dave

[jonesy]

There is an undocumented switch with REGEDIT.EXE (on XP anyway, don't know about other OSs) that lets you export parts of the registry. Here is a working example:

regedit /e c:\regfile.txt "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall"

Edited 'cos I kant shpell...

Edited October 30, 2006 by jonesy