How to navigate Windows registry tree with VBscript

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Does anyone know how to go about navigating the Windows registry when you need to walk the tree? How can I find the children of a node(key)?

I have this example in C. I have the WScript.Shell's RegRead method. I am not sure how to proceed.

My eventual target is to delete an entire subtree of the registry. I found that RegDelete throws an exception if the tree is not empty when I give a key path ending in a slash. So, I think I need to do a depth-first traversal and delete as I unwind.

Posted 24-Aug-11 16:37pm

Kevin Buchs

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Prerak Patel · Answer 1 · 2011-08-24T21:17:00

Solution 1

VB

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
mykey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\mykey\"
WshShell.RegDelete mykey

The trailing \ will delete entry with all child nodes.

Or check this. http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=674375[^]

Posted 24-Aug-11 21:17pm

Prerak Patel

Updated 24-Aug-11 21:20pm

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Rakesh Meel · Answer 2 · 2011-09-10T01:19:00

Solution 2

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742376.aspx[^]

Posted 10-Sep-11 1:19am

Rakesh Meel