Comments on: Make bginfo a standard part of your Windows server deployments

By: התקנת Forefront TMG 2010 » ITbananas

התקנת Forefront TMG 2010 » ITbananas — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:19:00 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:02:12 +0000

Thanks again for your help on this, Ed! Your lightning-fast responses are much appreciated

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:57:50 +0000

To close the loop on this, I emailed Steve a file. The one he was using had a blank line in it between the first two lines, and interestingly enough, prompted him that the import was successful even when it wasn’t. I saw the same behaviour when I added a blank line, so there you go, no blank lines in reg files, and another happy customer good to go.

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:31:37 +0000

Hmm, just tried on both here (32 Win7Ultimate, and 2008 R2) and it worked a charm on both boxes. Do you have non-standard perms being set on that registry key maybe?
The perms I show, which should be default, are
CREATOR OWNER inherited special, which is just to subkeys
SYSTEM inherited full control and read
Administrators (of the local machine) inherited full control and read
Users (of the local machine) inherited read
If your perms look good, maybe your anti-X is locking you out of or reverting changes to the reg key since malware used to like dropping stuff in that key.
Ed

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:15:26 +0000

I also tried this on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit box to no avail.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:12:49 +0000

It’s Windows 7 32-bit and yes, I’m logged on as the administrator.

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:10:50 +0000

What operating system, is it 64bit, and do you have admin rights?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:03:16 +0000

Thanks Ed. Still no luck, however. This is driving me crazy. It’s probably something so simple that I overlooked but I can’t figure it out.

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:59:53 +0000

Steve,
Try again, using the text below. It looks like the post is showing “smart quotes” instead of ascii quotes, and that might be tripping you up. I will try to edit that post shortly.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "bginfo"="c:\\windows\\bginfo.cmd"
HTH
Ed

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:54:56 +0000

For some reason, the registry key doesn’t show up in the registry under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] after I double-click on the reg file. The contents of the reg file are exactly the same as what you have above. I also receive confirmation that, “the keys and values contained in bginfo.reg have been successfully added to the registry.” Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:59:27 +0000

Hi David,
Yes, if everything you wanted it to display was either the same for all systems, or just handled by variables. That would work just fine.
Ed

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:17:10 +0000

Hi,
Do you know if you could just point this to a network share rather than run locally?
If so, that would probably make more sense.

Cheers,
D

By: Eight Simple Rules for Name Resolution

Eight Simple Rules for Name Resolution — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:34:22 +0000

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