Deleting in the Registry

[BritishBulldog]

How can I delete a complete string in the registry?

For example if I want to delete the '-site0' and all the keys under it.

and yes I have searched but found nothing.

[paul3vanz]

this one had me stumped for ages!! i could add all the reg's in the world, but could i delete one? no!

well anyways, all you have to do is add a minus (-) before the line of registry you want to delete.

will post an example in a minute

[paul3vanz]

this will delete that entire -Site0 key:

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Sites\-Site0]

delete a value (will delete the line about local directory):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Sites\-Site0]

-"Local Directory"=dword:00000001

delete contents of a value (will blank the local directory value):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Sites\-Site0]

"Local Directory"=-

that should all work ok, hope this is of use to you.

Whoops, fixed mistake as mentioned below, sorry!

Edited October 25, 2004 by paul3vanz

[BritishBulldog]

Hi

Thanks but the first one did not work

that would be the best one for me... deleting the complete -site1 key

[benners]

-[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Sites\-Site0]

should be

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Sites\-Site0]

[BritishBulldog]

cheers for that it worked now

made a note of all three.

Thanks both of you

[maxXPsoft]

REG DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v MsnMsgr /f

That deletes the Run entry value after installing MSN so it won't start with Win. I use that in Runoncex after it's installed.

Open a command prompt and type REG DELETE /?

REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Macromedia\Sites\-Site0 /f

Deletes the registry key -Site0 and its all subkeys and values

/f Forces it.