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Digital8
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 Copy Registry key using VBS Script
VB script, Windows Registry
Hi, I have a question i'm trying to copy the PC name witch is located in (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlComputerNameComputerName)  to a different registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREIOLANSphereStation) but i can't get it to work. I thought is should work with the script posted below but is doesn't it gives no error. 
Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

'Read the value of DefaultUserName :
reg = WSHShell.RegRead ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlComputerNameComputerNameComputerName")

'Replace the value with "Id" :
WshShell.RegWrite ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREIOLANSphereStation"), "Id" ,"REG_SZ"

'Data Types :
'REG_DWORD
'REG_BINARY
'REG_EXPAND_SZ
As you probable already noticed i havent got that mutch experience with VBS Scripting. I hope you guys can help me out al little.

Software/Hardware used:
Windows Xp Sp3
ASKED: December 9, 2009  3:10 PM
UPDATED: December 18, 2009  12:48 AM
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Try running reg from a command line. You could call from VBScript if you need to use VBScript. <pre>cmd /c reg add "HKLMkey" /v VALUE /t REG_SZ /d %COMPUTERNAME% /F</pre> Unfortunately your "<pre></pre>" (backslash) characters were stripped. Use the "code" tags around your script sections to prevent them from being stripped.
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I can read, the information from the registry using…

reg query “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlComputerNameComputerName” /v “ComputerName”

and i can also simply add the information to the registry but i want to automate it (Run Once at system start up)

The reason i want to automate this is because i have to clone a lot of PC’s and each one uses its PC name to logon to our companies software, having to edit every PC’s registry to add this information to the registry consumes a lot of time.

So if anyone knows of a way to do this, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Digital8
 25 pts.
 

Is there any reason you cannot use the COMPUTERNAME environment variable?

Pjb0222
 3,310 pts.
 

It works TnX Pjb0222… :)

Digital8
 25 pts.