Export Registry Branch

[shuanpicto]

I am looking to export a registry branch in VBscript.

When i run this command in CMD it works :-
REGEDIT /E "%APPDATA%\Temp\wallpaper.reg" "hkey_current_user\Control Panel\Desktop\"

How can I run this in VBScript or Jscript ?

The problem lies in the speech marks.

I tried this:-

Set wshshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

APPDATA = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%APPDATA%")

wshshell.Run "REGEDIT /e " & APPDATA & "\temp\wallpaper.reg" "hkey_current_user\Control Panel\Desktop\", 1, true

But i think my speech marks are all wrong.

Can anyone help me ?

I don't want to just create a CMD and run that, but i may have to !!

 

[mrmovie]

WshShell.Run "%APPDATA%\temp\wallpaper.reg " & Chr(34) & "hkey_current_user\Control Panel\Desktop\" & Chr(34), 1, True

should do it, environmentstrings are auto converted by .Run

 

[shuanpicto]

what about the Regedit /e bit ?

 

[PHV]

wshshell.Run "REGEDIT /e """ & APPDATA & "\temp\wallpaper.reg"" ""hkey_current_user\Control Panel\Desktop\""", 1, true

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[mrmovie]

WshShell.Run "regedit /e %APPDATA%\temp\wallpaper.reg " & Chr(34) & "hkey_current_user\Control Panel\Desktop\" & Chr(34), 1, True

 

[mrmovie]

did you have any luck with mine of PHV's suggestions