Sometimes (don’t ask me why) when you are hacking some terminal server it happens that an administrator has disabled regedit.exe and reg.exe, but forgot about visual basic script (vbs). I know, I know everyone is all busy with powershell, but trust me sometimes vbs is the right script for the job. So I hacked together a quick script to view the registry which you can find on my github:
https://github.com/DiabloHorn/DiabloHorn/blob/master/misc/regview.vbs
It should be pretty self-explanatory, but just in case here is some example usage:
C:\>cscript regview.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
[] help
help - displays this help
cd - change to that key
back - go to parent/previous key
ls - list current subkeys
lsv - list current key values
use - root key number to use
0 - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
1 - HKEY_CURRENT_USER
2 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
3 - HKEY_USERS
4 - HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
[] use
key number: 1
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\] cd software\vmware, inc.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.] ls
VMware Tools
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.] cd vmware tools
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.\vmware tools] lsv
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.\vmware tools] ls
Hgfs Usability
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.\vmware tools] cd hgfs usability
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.\vmware tools\hgfs usability] lsv
Entry Name: mappedDriveLetter
Data Type: String
Value: z
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.\vmware tools\hgfs usability] back
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.\vmware tools] back
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\vmware, inc.] exit
I know it lacks a search function, I’ll see if I get around to implement it any time soon. A script to change values is a whole other story though and something I don’t really need that often. If you encounter bugs, do fix them :)
DiabloHorn 