Re: Exporting/Importing Registry keys

Regedit can be run with no interaction.
Here is a one line batch file to export a specific key:
(One line but may wrap)

REGEDIT /e url.reg
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL

Here is a one line batch file to merge that key:

REGEDIT /s url.reg

You can specify a path for the filename if you wish.
Enclose any key with spaces in quotation marks.

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html



On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:40:14 -0700, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Vidya
<Vidya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the response. But my problem is "I cannot run in an interactive
mode" - I need something that is non-interactive. This will not work.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks





"Gel" wrote:

from dos run command "regedit"

Then select "file/export"; remember where to!!

To run, right click and select "merge" I recall.


Vidya wrote:
Hi,

What is the best/recommend way to export and import custom registry keys.

I use
reg export <RootKey>\<SubKey> <FileName> /y

The problem is this works great on Windows 2003 SP1 but the '/y' option is
missing in Windows XP SP2. I cannot run this command in an interactive mode
and hence '/y' is really important.

Any suggestions/clues.

Thanks
Vidya


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