Registry confirmation.

[coathanger007]

When importing a registry entry, Windows Always asks for confirmation. How do I disable this?

 

[Jason Roberts]

Same here. I do a lot of importing and gets tired of facing those "Do you want to import....?" messeges.

 

[yoyo]

At HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open\command you change the value to regedit.exe /s "%1"

This is dangerous. If you want to avoid accidently merging reg files you might think of making edit the default command. That's the way I prefer it. That would be: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell default = edit.
Doubleclicking then opens the file in notepad, rightclick to merge it.

To merge only a particular reg file silently you can use a batch file and use the regedit /s command or directly write to the registry using the REG command.

 

[coathanger007]

Thanks for the Tip !!! Very useful

 

[jroc]

indeed...seems very foolish to remove that "safeguard" because one might not have enough energy to click "yes" or "no" but then to each there own....hope we don't see a post..."Help...How do I fix my Registry"

 

[coathanger007]

I import registry settings when logging off so it's essential to have this automated. It's not a simple case of not having enough energy to click yes/no

 

[Daviepants]

I would keep the confirmation since I don't want any unknown registry entries modifying my system.

 

[coathanger007]

That's all very well but realistically, what is the likelihood of me acidentally importing a bad registry entry? I'd have to open dodge email attachments and if I did the registry entry would be imported silently anyway.

 

[Jason Roberts]

I don't worry about my registry being modified as I have Norton Ghost images in case and I have Windows XP Home Edition and Professional on a dual boot partition.

 

[coathanger007]

Imaging is ideal. Unfortunately, Norton Ghost and Driveimage are incompatible with my striped dynamic volumes and no one in this forum has been able to figure out a solution !!!