Once and a while we visit local customers. It is a great way to see our software working in the real world, and find out what we can do to make our products better. Many times I will be asked to solve an issue (That has nothing to do with our software)
This week while visiting a customer I was asked if there was a simple way to create a batch file (No VB Script) that would reset the default home page of IE 6. For various reasons they could not use Active Directory, nor could they use VB Script.
I started to play around with the command line options of regedit, and discovered it was not going to work. After some research I came across the reg.exe command. It seems like it is built into XP, 2003, and Vista. It is perfect for what I needed.
It allows you to modify/delete keys from the command line. Here is what I came up with:
I saved it as UpdateIE.bat. Now I can simply call it like this:
UpdateIE “http://www.intelliadmin.com”
It updates the local users IE home page, and very easy to add to a login script
(Below is the script source so you can copy and paste it)
@echo off
set key=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
set value=Start page
set data=%1
reg.exe add “%key%” /v “%value%” /d “%data%” /f
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What adjustments to this script (which works great for IE8 on Win7) are required to run under Citrix?
Thanks for the assist.
But your example is a little off and it took me a little while to debug. First, path you showed has spaces (‘Internet Explorer’) So the path should be enclosed in double quotes. Also, the parameters are not delimited correctly. Need to remove the quotes from there. Here is what I got to work:
@echo off
set key=”HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main”
set value=”Start page”
set data=%1
reg.exe add %key% /v %value% /d %data% /f
So how would I create a shortcut that would change my home and then start explorer?
And here is how it should actually look:
@echo off
set key="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main"
set value="Start Page"
set data="%1"
reg.exe add %key% /v %value% /d %data% /f
Note the “” around the %1
Hello Tim,
Thanks for taking the time to post this.