Allegro Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I have looked high and low for a solution to searching the registry and report back the info I need. I know where to look for the key directly, but it can vary from system to system. For example one of the keys is located under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001 on one system and under CONTROLSET002 on another. For example, I need to look for CDS_LIC_FILE and tell me the exact location. I need to read and modify this registry entry, which I know how, But I just need to find it first. Looked at RegEnumVal and RegEnumKey, but no luck. Can anyone help? Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skruge Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I have looked high and low for a solution to searching the registry and report back the info I need. I know where to look for the key directly, but it can vary from system to system. For example one of the keys is located under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001 on one system and under CONTROLSET002 on another. For example, I need to look for CDS_LIC_FILE and tell me the exact location. I need to read and modify this registry entry, which I know how, But I just need to find it first. Looked at RegEnumVal and RegEnumKey, but no luck. Can anyone help? Much appreciated.Underneath each profile, is the path the same, meaning the only variable is ControlSetXXX? If not, you'll need a more elaborate routine. $PathToValue = "\You\Know\Where" For $i= 1 to 100 $var = RegEnumKey("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM", $i) If @error <> 0 then ExitLoop If StringInStr($var, "ControlSet") Then $value = RegRead("HKLM\SYSTEM\" & $var & $PathToValue, "CDS_LIC_FILE") If $value <> "" Then ExitLoop EndIf EndIf Next [font="Tahoma"]"Tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties"[/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegro Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Hey, thanks. But the path is deeper than just the CONTROLSET. It is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET002\CONTROL\SESSION MANAGER\ENVIRONMENT. I suppose that I could test each CONTROLSET to see if it is in there, but I was hoping for just a straight search.. Any ideas? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skruge Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Hey, thanks. But the path is deeper than just the CONTROLSET. It is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET002\CONTROL\SESSION MANAGER\ENVIRONMENT. I suppose that I could test each CONTROLSET to see if it is in there, but I was hoping for just a straight search.. Any ideas? thanksYeah, you answered my question... I didn't know the value you were looking for was an environment variable. Just change the first line:$PathToValue = "[b]\CONTROL\SESSION MANAGER\ENVIRONMENT[/b]" If the path after ControlSetXXX was different then you'd need a more robust search process. Alex Peters posted a Registry Clone UDF long ago that is the closest thing that comes to mind. (Other than reading the output of regfind.exe) [font="Tahoma"]"Tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties"[/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaponx Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 PSaltyDS wrote a Registry Search UDF:http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...mp;#entry222610 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegro Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Excellent! It reports the CDS_LIC_FILE on my system in CONTROLSET002 just where it is. I will just insert this into the regread value to get the key value...... Thanks for the amazing quick help on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegro Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 PSaltyDS wrote a Registry Search UDF:http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...mp;#entry222610Just tried it, searching for CDS_LIC_FILE. Found it alright. But there are 4 instances of them, in different CONTROLSETs . I have other problems to solve now.. Thanks for the link to the search utility. Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skruge Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Just tried it, searching for CDS_LIC_FILE. Found it alright. But there are 4 instances of them, in different CONTROLSETs . I have other problems to solve now.. Thanks for the link to the search utility. Much appreciated.Does it appear under CurrentControlSet?CurrentControlset is an alias to another profile.Read the value of HKLM\System\Select\Current to see which it is. [font="Tahoma"]"Tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties"[/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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