Tim Roberts wrote:
Mike Driscoll wrote:
We're doing what amounts to a registry session audit here at work, so
I need to walk a specific set of subfolders in our registry and get
the contents thereof. The subfolders will vary from user to user. I
found Tim Golden's excellent registry walking script on his website here:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python-on-windows/programming-areas/registry/walk-the-registry.html


My problem is that I need to output the data into *.reg files. Is
there a builtin way to do that with _winreg or PyWin32 or do I just
need to roll my own?

I'm not answering the question you asked, but are you aware of the very
handy "reg" tool included with XP?  "reg export" can export a full key
in a format that is compatible with regedit.
    reg export HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\vgasave  xxx.reg


I suppose I should have completely explained the project, but I didn't think the other details mattered. I will be running this as part of my login script, and writing each subfolder to a directory tree on a per user basis. We are trying to figure out which users have which sessions of a certain program and how to best manage said sessions and their respective configurations, hence the audit.

I wasn't aware of this function but I don't know if it will run on every XP machine I touch. I keep running into screwy oddities on our machines where stuff that I thought should be standard isn't actually there. I'll look into your suggestion and see if it's viable though. Thanks for the info.

Mike
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