Running Registry Keys on Login

[SuperDaveDCF]

Anyone have experience running registry keys during login? All my clients are 95/98 and I'd like to push down software settings without touching the 1000+ machines over a four county region. Just putting them in a .pif or .bat file on a server and inserting the path in the login script doesn't work. I searched MS and found info about removing registry keys but nothing about adding.

I understand that Snapshot would allow me to create the application object but I have not used it. I have two main concerns. First, the application is already installed on all the client machines. Second, the app is about 50mb and I can't afford to suck up all that bandwidth.

We are slowly moving to Zen 3 but none of us have any real experience with it. Not sure if there is something there for this scenario.

I've also heard a little about msbatch, but again, I don't have any experience with it.

Any suggestions?

 

[salserocito]

I think you can run regedit with a few switches, which I'm not sure of, (its been a long time since I tried doing this), and it will append or edit your registry on the fly with pre-created keys.

Good Luck.

 

[TheLad]

If you want to use ZEN to do it, get the keys into a REG file, create an application (no AXT/AOT), then select the Registry section and import the registry file.

You will obviously have to select the environment (OS etc..) and complete that properly but it works. -----------------------------------------------------
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[froz]

Use the example below, works under NT4/5 and Win9*. The g:\..... is the path and the reg file I'm importing. You'll just need to be sure that regedit is in the client path, otherwise give the full path to it. If you have have a mixed desktop environment you'll need to check OS version before executing, as regedit exists in different locations under NT* and Win9*.

regedit.exe /s g:\ang_apps\anglia\dvlcom\winnt\winnt.reg


Froz