Environment variable question

[maniaq]

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\Interface\Themes]"ShellExtBMP"="D:\\Program Files\\WinRAR"

%programfiles% doesn't work for me in the reg file.....how can i change D:\\Program Files

Edited January 26, 2006 by maniaq

[Yzöwl]

You could try this instead!

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\Interface\Themes]
"ShellExtBMP"="%ProgramFiles%\\WinRAR"

Or using reg.exe

REG ADD HKCU\Software\WinRAR\Interface\Themes /V ShellExtBMP /T REG_EXPAND_SZ /D "%%ProgramFiles%%\WinRAR" /F

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The above should be one single line

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Edited January 26, 2006 by Yzöwl

[maniaq]

it doesnt work

[Doc Symbiosis]

Do you get an error messsage, when you run the rag add command posted by Yzöwl? If not, which data is entered in your newly created value or what else is going wrong?

[maniaq]

i'm not getting any errors but when i run it doesn't do what it has to do. when i change to d:\ it works

[Doc Symbiosis]

Yzöwl's reg add command runs fine on my machine, of course, when you run it in command line and not in a batch, you have to use just single not double %.

[Sonic]

Yzöwl's reg add command runs fine on my machine, of course, when you run it in command line and not in a batch, you have to use just single not double %.

Wrong.

The double % allow to keep variable in registry with /t REG_EXPAND_SZ type. With one %, the value become hard coded. But in fact, it's not a problem if it's hard coded because after batch execution program files path doesn't change. I think the best solution it's batch file which pass hard coded path of program files to reg.exe.

REG ADD HKCU\Software\WinRAR\Interface\Themes /V ShellExtBMP /D "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR" /F

Edited January 29, 2006 by sonic

[maniaq]

Yzöwl's reg add command runs fine on my machine, of course, when you run it in command line and not in a batch, you have to use just single not double %.

Wrong.

The double % allow to keep variable in registry with /t REG_EXPAND_SZ type. With one %, the value become hard coded. But in fact, it's not a problem if it's hard coded because after batch execution program files path doesn't change. I think the best solution it's batch file which pass hard coded path of program files to reg.exe.

REG ADD HKCU\Software\WinRAR\Interface\Themes /V ShellExtBMP /D "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR" /F

it worked..tnx