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POHow to use REG_EXPAND_SZ from the commandline?
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  1. POHow to use REG_EXPAND_SZ from the commandline?
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    copied!<p>I was reading the Windows Commandline Documentation (Win+F1) about the commands that modify the Windows registry, particularly the the "reg add" command.</p> <pre><code>reg add HKCU\testfolder /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v Stokrotka /d "%systemroot%\system32" </code></pre> <p>Now, I don't know how this was designed to work. When I invoke the command above, the variable <code>%systemroot%</code> gets expanded to <code>C:\Windows</code>. I've tried the following not to make the variable to expand, but there is no way I could force it not to:</p> <ul> <li>escaping the `%%`'s with an `%, ^, \` - doesn't work even if I use double quotes around <li>using the single quotes '' around the whole /d string <li>use `setlocal setdelayedexpansion`? sth like: </ul> <p><code># (setlocal enabledelayedexpansion) &amp;&amp; (reg add HKCU\testfolder /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v Stokrotka /d "!systemroot!\system32") &amp;&amp; (setlocal disabledelayedexpansion)</code></p> <p>The variable 'data' (/d) field is either like <code>^%systemroot^%</code> or like <code>!systemroot!</code> or just expands to C:\windows . I could probably use the .reg file to accomplish my task, but I simply don't want to do it.<br> I thought that maybe there is something wrong with the program that I use to display the variable contents (<code>regedit / regedt32 / reg query (commandline)</code>), but after checking this is probably not the case.<br> Any ideas? I'm mainly interested how the variable value should look like in the regedit window, should it be like :<code>"%systemroot%\system32"</code> or <code>"C:\windows\system32"</code> to be properly expanded by other programs. Regards. </p>
 

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