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Delete ALL registry keys on a wildcard?
Posted on 2006-06-24
Hi folks,
For some reason, there are a LOT of registry keys listed thru our systems here that contain printer connections. I have to go to each machine, find the key and delete all instances of it, on every user, everywhere. Then finally, printers stop trying to populate on the machine (they don't exist!).
Anyhoo... is there a program or script I can run to delete all instances of a wildcard entry on the registry?
Thanks a lot!
For some reason, there are a LOT of registry keys listed thru our systems here that contain printer connections. I have to go to each machine, find the key and delete all instances of it, on every user, everywhere. Then finally, printers stop trying to populate on the machine (they don't exist!).
Anyhoo... is there a program or script I can run to delete all instances of a wildcard entry on the registry?
Thanks a lot!
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You should be able to automate it using the command line Registry Provider.
See http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/2006/03/08/546548.aspx - you can download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2B0BBFCD-0797-4083-A817-5E6A054A85C9&displaylang=en .
See http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/2006/03/08/546548.aspx - you can download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2B0BBFCD-0797-4083-A817-5E6A054A85C9&displaylang=en .
Hi,
Here is a simple free vbscript to do just what you want.
http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/help.html
It is completely explained... Basically you cut and paste this script and save as "regdelete.vbs" and call this script from the command line with the syntax described.
You could share this script on the domain and call it from a login script or if you are familiar with windows scripting:
Running Scripts on Remote Computers
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_wsh_immo.mspx?mfr=true
WshController Object
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_wsh_immo.mspx?mfr=true
Hope this helps.
Good Luck,
Rick
Here is a simple free vbscript to do just what you want.
http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/help.html
It is completely explained... Basically you cut and paste this script and save as "regdelete.vbs" and call this script from the command line with the syntax described.
You could share this script on the domain and call it from a login script or if you are familiar with windows scripting:
Running Scripts on Remote Computers
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_wsh_immo.mspx?mfr=true
WshController Object
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_wsh_immo.mspx?mfr=true
Hope this helps.
Good Luck,
Rick
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