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Re: Script to Search and Delete Registry Keys?

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  Re: Script to Search and Delete Registry Keys? jirkuwiwan@gmail.com - 2017-10-21 00:46 -0700
    Re: Script to Search and Delete Registry Keys? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-21 11:12 +0200

#11780 — Re: Script to Search and Delete Registry Keys?

On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 1:01:00 PM UTC, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a way to create a script that will search
> the Registry for any Keys and Values that contain a specific string,
> and then delete them. It would be handy to delete all the subkeys and
> values beneath a found Key as well.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Sincerely,
> Paul Rubin
> prubin@equilter.com

Hi!
Sorry to bother you but is there at this time any user friendly solution in a way of program which would do such action??

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#11781

Hello jirkuwiwan,

I hope you do erealize that the post you have tagged yours to is 14 *years* 
old ?   Not much chance that the OP will be reading yours anymore ...

But on to your question:
> Sorry to bother you but is there at this time any user friendly solution
> in a way of program which would do such action??

In one word ?  No.

Explanation:
1) Allowing a user to enter any word and than use it to delete whole 
branches from the registry is asking for a lot of hurt.  Just imagine the 
user entering "software" ...
2) Using a *scripting* language allows a user to (inadvertedly?) change it, 
and with the smallest mistake hurt himself even more. :-(

In short, there is nothing "user friendly" about what you are asking.

And in the case you are asking for a VBScript which can crawl the registry 
tree, yes, thats possible.  But what did you already try yourself  ?  We're 
here to *help* you so that you can learn, not to write such scripts for you 
for free ...

Also, google for "vbscript registry iterate" (without the double quotes). 
There seem to be quite a number of StackOverflow examples available.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser




<jirkuwiwan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:e75c66e5-ce34-4564-a6b4-25ed42685bce@googlegroups.com...
> On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 1:01:00 PM UTC, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a way to create a script that will search
>> the Registry for any Keys and Values that contain a specific string,
>> and then delete them. It would be handy to delete all the subkeys and
>> values beneath a found Key as well.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Sincerely,
>> Paul Rubin
>> prubin@equilter.com
>
> Hi!
> Sorry to bother you but is there at this time any user friendly solution 
> in a way of program which would do such action??

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