1. I am using group policy to add registry entries to prevent the auto update of Sun Java Runtime Environment. I need to add registry entries at both startup and login. 2. Since I have pretty limited knowledge of scripting I started by modifying another login script which I know to work. 3. After a lot of hacking around I ended up with the following code (placed after my comments) 4. The code seems to do everything I ask EXCEPT that I cannot get the script to merge the REG file into the registry on the remote PC. 5. Since the REG file includes a long binary value I am limited as to my choices for editing the registry. It does not look like the RegWrite method works for long binary values. I suppose I could try to call a CMD or BAT file and have that file do the registry edit, but this is already a complicated install and I'd like to avoid another step. 6. The error message I get on the remote PC is "Registry Editor: Cannot import c:\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg: Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error. Here's the code (sorry its long - I've flagged the line where I think the problem occurs): Option Explicit Dim oShell : set oShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim oFS : set oFS = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim checkFileExists : checkFileExists = "c:\java161checkfile.txt" REM On error resume next **************************************** if (GetTheOS() = "W2K") then ' IF the check file does not exist then run the following steps If(NOT oFS.FileExists(checkFileExists)) Then Dim DoesKeyExist DoesKeyExist = "HKCU\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy" If RegKeyExists(DoesKeyExist) then oShell.RegDelete ("HKCU\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy\") Else 'do nothing End if oFS.CopyFile "\\ds2\Network Services\Java\Scripts\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg", "c:\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg" Dim java2K : java2K = "regedit c:\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg" I THINK THE PROBLEM IS THE NEXT LINE oShell.Run (java2K) oFS.DeleteFile "c:\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg" writeCheckFile() End if End if '******************** END MAIN Function GetTheOS() ' Will work with most versions of WSH (windows shell) CONST FORREADING = 1 Dim sResults, fFile Dim WshShell : Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim FSO : Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim sTemp : sTemp = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%") Dim sTempFile : sTempFile = "c:\runresult.tmp" WshShell.Run "%comspec% /c ver >" & sTempFile, 0, True Set fFile = FSO.OpenTextFile(sTempFile, FORREADING) sResults = fFile.ReadAll fFile.Close Fso.DeleteFile(sTempFile) Select Case True Case InStr(sResults, "Windows NT") > 1 : GetTheOS = "NT4" Case InStr(sResults, "Windows 2000") > 1 : GetTheOS = "W2K" Case InStr(sResults, "Windows XP") > 1 : GetTheOS = "WXP" Case Else : GetTheOS = "Unknown" End Select End Function 'function for writing the checkfile Function writeCheckFile() Dim checkFile Set checkFile = oFS.CreateTextFile("c:\java161checkfile.txt", True) checkFile.WriteLine("This file is used by the script JavaInstall.vbs") checkFile.WriteBlankLines(1) checkFile.WriteLine("If it is the first time the script runs it will write") checkFile.WriteLine("this file to c:\java161checkfile.txt.") checkFile.WriteBlankLines(1) checkFile.WriteLine("If this file exists the next time the script will skip") checkFile.WriteLine("the running of the Java install and associated registry edits.") End Function ' Returns True or False based on the existence of a registry key. ' This part is a compliment from Torgeir Bakken. Function RegKeyExists(ByVal sRegKey) Dim sDescription RegKeyExists = True sRegKey = Trim (sRegKey) If Not Right(sRegKey, 1) = "\" Then sRegKey = sRegKey & "\" End If On Error Resume Next oShell.RegRead "HKEYNotAKey\" sDescription = Replace(Err.Description, "HKEYNotAKey\", "") Err.Clear oShell.RegRead sRegKey RegKeyExists = sDescription <> Replace(Err.Description, sRegKey, "") On Error Goto 0 End Function '*********** CLEAN UP ******************* Set oFS = Nothing Set oShell = Nothing WScript.Quit (0) '********** END CODE **************** Any suggestions???? Anything more you need to know to answer the questions? Thanks for your help! Cliff

Import Reg with VBScript "Computer security." — Oxymoron

6. The error message I get on the remote PC is "Registry Editor: Cannot import c:\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg: Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error. Well there's your problem. Either give every user write/create/delete privileges to every remote's c:\, or redirect the command to a file share. As in: oShell.Run "regedit /s "\\ds2\Network Services\Java\Scripts\DisableJavaUpdateHKCU.reg" I didn't even look at the code, does anyone think that that'll be a problem?...