Amjath
5th April 2006 12:29 UTC

How to Edit .reg File
Hi,

How to Edit .reg File.

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dienjd
5th April 2006 15:02 UTC

You should be able to edit it like you would a text file with FileOpen, FileWrite, FileClose. Make sure there is still valid regedit text at the beginning of the file (example: "REGEDIT4") so that Windows accepts it.

If FileWrite give you errors with a .reg file, write what you want as a .txt file, delete the .reg file, and rename your .txt file to .reg.

Afrow UK
5th April 2006 16:15 UTC

If you want to edit a .reg file on run time, you'll have to use FileOpen, FileWrite and FileClose. I'm not sure if the registry plugin handles .reg files, but I couldn't find anything to suggest otherwise. FileOpen will have no trouble opening a file with the .reg file extension; after all it is just a plain text file.

If you want to extract a .reg file and edit it on run time before executing it, then it would be much better to use NSIS's ReadRegStr/WriteRegStr (etc) functions which are built in.

-Stu