Dos Regedit

hannable80

Does anyone know how to append a value to the Path variable for Local system in dos (bat)

regedit System Variable.reg "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Environment\%Path%"
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this throws an error i know there is ment to be no space in the path name....so when i run it without it justs adds a new system variable called systemvariable


HELP!

carveone

You could do this I suppose:

reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "Path" /d "%PATH%;C:\NEWAPP\BIN" /f

I think you might need to add a flag: /t REG_EXPAND_SZ
because the Path has expandable bits in it like %SYSTEMROOT% and the like and I believe reg add will cause the string to be a REG_SZ which would end up in problems...

You can do a fetch by playing games with the for command:

like:

for /F %a in ('reg query "HKLM....etc..."" /v Path') do set origpath=%a

(%a has to be %%a in a batch file by the way and you might need to mess with tokens and delims in the for. Do a "for /?" for help...)

hannable80

worked great THANKS

hannable80

Sorry my inital batch worked but the editing a string im having an issue with


I am checking to see if %a is in the path variable and if so enter a



P:\NEWSTRING..... It doesnt work !! any ideas

%a = P:\teststring;
For %a in ('reg query "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "Path"')
reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "Path" /d "P:\NEWSTRING;%PATH%" /f
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Capt'n Midnight

using For %a in a dos batch file to regedit is not the best idea in the word, because if it has a parsing problem , and it will , horrible things can happen


you should consider windows scripting instead maybe

hannable80

tried it cant get it to go over a domain.. WMI and WSH not working....This is going to be called in a logon script on every machine

matt-dublin

export the reg key from a machine

then run a script:

regedit.exe /s "\\servername\regfile.reg"

i use this format successfully for registering ODBC connections (system dsn)

Capt'n Midnight

matt-dublin wrote: »

export the reg key from a machine

then run a script:

regedit.exe /s "\\servername\regfile.reg"

i use this format successfully for registering ODBC connections (system dsn)

LOL Been there , done that


does autoexec.nt work any more ?

hannable80

i cant use that solution, going to be rolled out on alot of PCs.... Too time consuming

testicle

path = %PATH%;newdir ???

You can also set the Path using Group Policy, in Active Directory.

matt-dublin

hannable80 wrote: »

i cant use that solution, going to be rolled out on alot of PCs.... Too time consuming

Yes you can, Logon script.

Also you could possibly use group policy client side preferences to add a Registry Key.

matt-dublin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

LOL Been there , done that


does autoexec.nt work any more ?

I use this in a logon script deployed via group policy, placed in a specific OU in active directory (computer builds and maintenance)

IE, Deploy windows via WDS, prestage AD Computer account in specific OU. Lg in, run GPUpdate and all my software installs automatically.

All the suer has to do is login, no profile configuration required.

All profile information is saved on LAN so moving PCs is even easier!

hannable80

I have no idea how to do that! can you point me in the direction of how to do that.....i am usinh kixs so i thing that is different maybe!
All i really need is the for statement and the string manipulation to be working on the batch file

hannable80

any one got any ideas? The group policy's solution i cannot do company policy !

matt-dublin

then how do you expect to run it out over multiple machines?

hannable80

using kixs

matt-dublin

never heard of it