A fix for a geek problem.

[theweaselking]

A few days ago I was looking for a way to script edits to the system path on a set of Win2K and WinXP boxes. Specifically, I wanted something I could run as a part of a batch job to add an item to the system Path and have it stay past the closure of the window in a way that a simple path=%PATH%;$NEW_ENTRY does not.

So I asked cerebrate, and his solution is simple, well-documented, works, and is easily modifiable once you read it to see how Registry read/writes work in VBScript.

For someone (like myself) who knew he wanted to do registry read/writes but had no idea of a practical way how and was hitting a wall in finding a tutorial, it's genius.

And so now I share it for anyone else in the same boat.