Question

Delete Registry Folder .bat file Error

Asked by: Casedesign

I'm try to push out a .bat file to delete 3 registry folders, Nemetschek, VectorWorks, and Nemestschek.  It works prefectly ok when I run the .bat file from my desktop.  When I push it out to a machine I get an "error:  The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value"
I can't understand what the problem is.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  These are the command that is in my .bat file.  

reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nemetschek /f
reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VectorWorks /f
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Nemetschek /f

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2009-11-02 at 08:27:44ID24864135
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Answers

 

by: chilternPCPosted on 2009-11-02 at 08:41:16ID: 25720940

whatdo you mean 'push it to a machine' ?   are you executing the bat file from your console remotely? or do you have a  VPN connection to the remote machine or is the bat file excuted at startup?

 

by: bob_the_builderPosted on 2009-11-02 at 08:42:48ID: 25720965

Hi,

Do the other users definately have these reg keys???

Also, take a look at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823468

Cheers,

Bob...

 

by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-02 at 08:43:55ID: 25720975

I'm using Altiris to Initiate the action.  

 

by: augwestPosted on 2009-11-02 at 08:43:56ID: 25720976

Simply puting a - in the key name will remove it here is an example


[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.fts\ShellNew]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dft\ShellNew]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pm6\ShellNew]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.p65\ShellNew]

export the key from your registry and add the - before it this removes it

 

by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-02 at 08:45:30ID: 25720990

Yes, the files are in the registry of the other user computers.

 

by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-02 at 08:51:46ID: 25721050

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nemetschek] /f
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VectorWorks] /f
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Nemetschek] /f

When I tried using the above in my .bat file.  I get a "The system cannot find the path specified" error.  

 

by: igor-1965Posted on 2009-11-02 at 08:56:05ID: 25721091

Maybe a wrong syntax of the command. Try these ones:

reg delete HKCU\Software\Nemetschek /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\VectorWorks /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\Nemetschek /f

Hope it helps

 

by: igor-1965Posted on 2009-11-02 at 08:57:13ID: 25721105

Sorry, these ones:

reg delete HKCU\Software\Nemetschek /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\VectorWorks /f
reg delete HKLM\Software\Nemetschek /f

 

by: QlemoPosted on 2009-11-02 at 09:02:07ID: 25721153

HKEY_Current_User might not be defined or pointing to the wrong user - if this runs in a system account, for example.
If so, you've got a problem. The batch file needs to run under the according account on each machine.

 

by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-02 at 09:02:20ID: 25721158

that works just fine when I double click it from the desktop, but when I use Altiris Deployment Solution to push it out to the machine I get the "system was unable to find the specified registry key or value"

 

by: QlemoPosted on 2009-11-02 at 09:03:51ID: 25721177

Well, yes, the hive name has to be abbreviated (HKLM, HKCU, HKU, ...).

 

by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-02 at 09:12:09ID: 25721266

Well at least I narrowed down the solution.  From Qlemo's quote, I tired using the user account that is associated with the computer and that worked.  My problem now trying to figure out which account to use.  

 

by: augwestPosted on 2009-11-02 at 09:18:54ID: 25721328

Can you split this up into two deployments, one that happens on user login for the Current user ones, and for the local machine one on system reboot this could solve your issue

 

by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-03 at 06:03:47ID: 25728989

What I really need is some command to delete all hkcu folders from below.  


reg delete HKCU\Software\Nemetschek /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\VectorWorks /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\Nemetschek /f

 

by: igor-1965Posted on 2009-11-03 at 06:40:06ID: 25729338

You won't achieve it with Altiris. To delete keys from HKEY_CURRENT_USER you have to use login scripts. I think it is the only solution.

 

by: QlemoPosted on 2009-11-03 at 10:59:52ID: 25732225

Another way would be to remove the occurences of those keys for ALL (active) users. But reg delete can't do it itself, we would need a reg dump of the user hives, and then generate reg delete commands according to it. However, that works only for users logged in at the moment, that is the user profile has to be loaded already.

reg query HKU | find "S-1-5-21-" | for /F "tokens=*" %%K in ('find /v "_Classes"') do (
  reg delete %%K\Software\Nemetschek /f
  reg delete %%K\Software\VectorWorks /f
)

                                              
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by: CasedesignPosted on 2009-11-04 at 10:08:26ID: 31648923

the sid thing worked, this one goes to you.

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