Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Lab 35 Creating Registry Keys

In this lab, you create a couple of registry keys that can be used to keep track of a software inventory of the workstation.

Lab Instructions

1. Open Notepad.exe.

2. On the first line, type Option Explicit. Save your script as Lab35Solution.vbs.

3. Declare the following variables: strKeyPath, strComputer, objReg, subKey, arrSubKeys, and ParentKey. You code will look like the following:

   Option Explicit
   Dim strKeyPath
   Dim strComputer
   Dim objReg
   Dim subKey
   Dim arrSubKeys
   Dim ParentKey

4. Define the constant for HKLM and set it equal to &H80000002. It will look like the following:

   Const HKLM = &H80000002 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

5. Assign the value of " SOFTWARE\INVENTORY" to the ParentKey variable. It will look like the following:

   ParentKey = "SOFTWARE\INVENTORY" ...