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How to add a .REG file to your Registry silently

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How to add a .REG file to your Registry silently? This question came up today. As is the case usually /s is for silent and /q is for quiet. One will usually work.

regedit /s foo.reg

Posted at 2005-03-17 03:39 PM by Scott
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Friday, March 18, 2005 3:41:44 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

You can use "reg import foo.reg" as well

Thomas Freudenberg

Friday, March 18, 2005 8:48:12 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I did not know that! REG is a great command line tool! Thanks!

Scott Hanselman

Friday, March 18, 2005 9:06:02 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Thomas, great find with the reg tool. I have been hacking around in the registry for years and didn't know this existed. Makes me wonder what else might exist that I don't know about and have been working around for years.

http://www.devcow.com/weblogs/Trackback,guid,466de879-4c08-4647-bf3d-3879b0603198.aspx

Matt Ranlett

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:18:01 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I'll second (or third) that great find Thomas!

Excellent tool.
This could make testing a known good install against a latest install a little easier.

Anyone know if it's XP and up only?

Ian

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:21:27 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

looks like it ships with XP and is in the resource kit for NT/2000.

http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

I just checked and it's also in a default install of Server 2003.

Ian

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