Archive for June 2nd, 2012

VBScript to delete Novell registry keys

Recently I created a script for a colleague that will recursively delete some Novell registry keys if found in HKEY_USERS.  It doesn’t check if the key exists first, it’ll just try to delete it.  However, if the key does exist and does have subkeys, it will delete the subkeys first. Hopefully this will get the job done if you need something like this.  To test it first, simply uncomment the wscript.echo statements and run on a test system.

'On Error Resume Next 
Const HKU = &H80000003 
Set objRegistry = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:StdRegProv") 
' Delete first key strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Novell GroupWise" objRegistry.EnumKey HKU, "", arrSubkeys1 
For Each strSubkey in arrSubkeys1 'wscript.echo cstr(strSubkey) DeleteSubkeys HKU, cstr(strSubkey) & "\" & strKeypath  Next 
' Delete second key strKeyPath = "Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Novell Default Settings" objRegistry.EnumKey HKU, "", arrSubkeys2 
For Each strSubkey in arrSubkeys2 'wscript.echo cstr(strSubkey) DeleteSubkeys HKU, cstr(strSubkey) & "\" & strKeypath  Next 
wscript.quit 0 
'============================================================ 
Sub DeleteSubkeys(HKU, strKeyPath) 
   objRegistry.EnumKey HKU, strKeyPath, arrSubkeys3 
   If IsArray(arrSubkeys3) Then For Each strSubkey In arrSubkeys3 DeleteSubkeys HKU, strKeyPath & "\" & strSubkey  Next End If 
   objRegistry.DeleteKey HKU, strKeyPath z  'wscript.echo "Deleted: " & strKeyPath 
End Sub

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