BleepingComputer.com: Script for Deleting files/reg keys

I want to make a script that will delete Registry Keys using wildcards, such as HKEY_CURRENT_USER\test00*. It also has to be able to delete specific files using environment variables such as %appdata% or %homedrive%.

what scripting language would be best to use? Autohotkey(AutoIt), VBS, batch? Any help please. Also, a good source of info for the selected language would be nice too.

What do you mean by best? There are any number of scripting languages that would work equally well.

Visual Basic is an EASY language which is easy to pick up and is extremely simple to delete a registry key.

Get Value

Sub Main()

		If My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\system\", _
		"TestValue", Nothing) Is Nothing Then
			MsgBox("Value does not exist.")
		End If

threading.thread.sleep(10000)

End Sub

(keyName as string, Value Name, DefaultValue) is string




Environment Variables

		My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine
		My.Computer.Registry.Users
		My.Computer.Registry.PerformanceData
		My.Computer.Registry.ClassesData
		My.Computer.Registry.CurrentConfig
		My.Computer.Registry.DynData
		My.Computer.Registry.ClassesData

Delete Value

Sub Main()

		My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.DeleteValue(name as string)
		My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.DeleteSubKey(subkey as string)
		My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.DeleteSubKeyTree(subkey as string)

threading.thread.sleep(10000)

End Sub

Hope this helps,

Ply.

This post has been edited by PlyPencil: 11 October 2008 - 02:58 AM