I'm lost here (not at this forum but gotta Problema!) HOW do I find, SEARCH for and then DISPLAY a specific binary- or DWORD-value (etc.value) from within the registry and show the results in the batch from within it runs! (sorry, get confused Myself) I do know how do Edit (add/rem) spec. values /keys from a batch BUT how display/ECHO them values on screen (that of course need to be searched for 1st) ANY IDEAS could be great! (or confusing, lol:) Please make an realistic example else I don't get it!! (don't write some general code wich I do NOT understand! cause I can't relate it to any. If u make great example I actually then imidiantly then get the basic behind it, and also much faster really much easier, OK (honest thats true!) IsIt also possible to have ErrorLevel if found/ or not Found ? _____________________________________________________ THANX. BatchLearning (yeh I know: rather should try learn English!)

Let's say you have the DWORD value named "MyValue" under the following key: HKEY_EXAMPLE\Macrosoft To extract the whole key to a file, you would do: REGEDIT /E file.dat HKEY_EXAMPLE\Macrosoft Now that you have the whole key on the file, use FIND to display only the line which contains the value: FIND "MyValue" < file.dat Afterwards, delete the temporary file. I recommend using a file under the %TEMP% variable (such as %TEMP%.\file.dat), I simply used file.dat to make it simpler. That method will display the DWORD name and value, like this: "MyValue"="string" If you just want the value, I can do it, though it would require a more complex batch file. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

By the way, FIND will return errorlevel 0 if it finds the string, and errorlevel 1 if it doesn't. So, use it: REGEDIT /E file.dat HKEY_EXAMPLE\Macrosoft FIND "MyValue" < file.dat if errorlevel=1 echo Value not found! In this example, if the value is found it will be displayed, and if it isn't, the message "Value not found!" will be displayed. Look this other one: REGEDIT /E file.dat HKEY_EXAMPLE\Macrosoft type file.dat |FIND "MyValue" > file.dat if errorlevel=1 goto notfound goto found And then you would have the lables :notfound and :found further on the batch script. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

Thank You for U'r great help Leonardo:)