Hi there,

I want to add the following directory to my Path variable: "c:\Program Files\IT+ES command line applications" permanently. I tried the following vb-script, but after restart, when I want to run a command, e.g. net user, it says, that it can't find this command. In my own directory, I can run the commands. It seems to add the directory in a right way, but I think there's missing some escape Character or something like this, cause, when I add the directory manually, everything works fine.

Anyone got an idea or another way to do this?

Set wshshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

key_path_cur = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path"
key_path_001 = "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path"
key_path_002 = "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path"

app_dir = "%PROGRAMFILES%\IT+ES command line applications"
app_dir = wshshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(app_dir)

cur_path = wshshell.RegRead(key_path_cur)

new_path = cur_path&";"& app_dir

wshshell.RegWrite key_path_001, new_path
wshshell.RegWrite key_path_002, new_path

care to elaborate the purpose?

like, do you want to be able to do something like such

set lastgood=%systemroot%\lastgood

so that you could then do

%lastgood% and goto the above directory

if this is the purpose, remember, when using dynamic values, like %systemroot, you can just use, a string, but rather an expanable string value.

also changing reg keys, then exporting, and edit the .reg file to only have what you need, can make things easier, but remember to make a backup first, to restore to, b4 you restart the computer, if you think it might b0rk things.

Just found my mistake. The trouble came from, that the newly created regvalues have type REG_SZ. So I added the type and everything works fine

wshshell.RegWrite key_path_001, new_path,"REG_EXPAND_SZ"
wshshell.RegWrite key_path_002, new_path,"REG_EXPAND_SZ"