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Asked: 2021-11-12T10:41:30+00:00 In:

Search For Reg Key Containing String

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I am trying to create a bat file that will search a registry hive and return a key that contains a substring …and doesn’t contain another substring….

I need to search and find certain key names but do not have the full key name …\
is there a way to do this with REG.exe

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    1. Maybe something like this:

      for %%a in ("HKLM" "HKCU" "HKCR" "HKU" "HKCC") do (
    2>nul reg query %%a /s | find /v "    " | find /i "wanted string" | find /v /i "unwanted string"
)

      Remove any unneeded hive roots to taste, or add subkeys
      to narrow the search.

      Remove /i switches to the find commands for a case sensitive search.

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