Hello,

I had to reinstall windows 2000 on my Dell laptop. The support folks helped me
to save customizations in my environment variables by exporting the registry
at:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

I want to selectively cut and past snippets from the exported registry to the
panel MyComputer->Properties->Advanced->EnvironmentVariables. However, when I
open the exported registry with my favourite editor (vim), some of the entries
appear to be in double-digit hex. For example, the PATH is a series of hex
numbers separated by commas. I don't want to cut and paste that into the GUI
panel for environment variables.

Is there a way to get the text version of these environment variables?

Thanks.

Fred
--
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

"Fred Ma" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I had to reinstall windows 2000 on my Dell laptop. The support folks
helped me
> to save customizations in my environment variables by exporting the
registry
> at:
>
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
>
> I want to selectively cut and past snippets from the exported registry to
the
> panel MyComputer->Properties->Advanced->EnvironmentVariables. However,
when I
> open the exported registry with my favourite editor (vim), some of the
entries
> appear to be in double-digit hex. For example, the PATH is a series of
hex
> numbers separated by commas. I don't want to cut and paste that into the
GUI
> panel for environment variables.
>
> Is there a way to get the text version of these environment variables?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
> --
> Fred Ma
> Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Why bother with a registry export when you can access these same
variables from a Command Prompt environment?

set > c:\EnvVariables.txt

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> > I had to reinstall windows 2000 on my Dell laptop. The support
> > folks helped me to save customizations in my environment variables
> > by exporting the registry at:
> >
> > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
> >
> > I want to selectively cut and past snippets from the exported
> > registry to the panel
> > MyComputer->Properties->Advanced->EnvironmentVariables. However,
> > when I open the exported registry with my favourite editor (vim),
> > some of the entries appear to be in double-digit hex. For
> > example, the PATH is a series of hex numbers separated by commas.
> > I don't want to cut and paste that into the GUI panel for
> > environment variables.
> >
> > Is there a way to get the text version of these environment variables?
>
> Why bother with a registry export when you can access these same
> variables from a Command Prompt environment?
>
> set > c:\EnvVariables.txt

It's too late for me to do that . I only have the registry
export from before reinstalling windows. .

Fred

P.S. Besides, I just found that "set" prints the variables in their
hard coded form. The entries in the GUI have variables in them. I
don't normally use the Command Prompt, since I more familiar with the
unix-like environment of cygwin.
--
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

"Fred Ma" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> > > I had to reinstall windows 2000 on my Dell laptop. The support
> > > folks helped me to save customizations in my environment variables
> > > by exporting the registry at:
> > >
> > > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
> > >
> > > I want to selectively cut and past snippets from the exported
> > > registry to the panel
> > > MyComputer->Properties->Advanced->EnvironmentVariables. However,
> > > when I open the exported registry with my favourite editor (vim),
> > > some of the entries appear to be in double-digit hex. For
> > > example, the PATH is a series of hex numbers separated by commas.
> > > I don't want to cut and paste that into the GUI panel for
> > > environment variables.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to get the text version of these environment variables?
> >
> > Why bother with a registry export when you can access these same
> > variables from a Command Prompt environment?
> >
> > set > c:\EnvVariables.txt
>
> It's too late for me to do that . I only have the registry
> export from before reinstalling windows. .
>
> Fred
>
> P.S. Besides, I just found that "set" prints the variables in their
> hard coded form. The entries in the GUI have variables in them. I
> don't normally use the Command Prompt, since I more familiar with the
> unix-like environment of cygwin.
> --
> Fred Ma
> Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

In such a case I would write a little hex-to-character converter.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> In such a case I would write a little hex-to-character converter.


In future, is there a way to export it without converting to hex?
This conversion seems to only afflict some entries.

Fred
--
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Not using regedit.

--
George Hester
__________________________________
"Fred Ma" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> > In such a case I would write a little hex-to-character converter.
>
>
> In future, is there a way to export it without converting to hex?
> This conversion seems to only afflict some entries.
>
> Fred
> --
> Fred Ma
> Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Regedit.exe in WinXP Pro gives a save to text option on right-click on a
key. Don't know if it would work on 2000.

George Hester wrote:
>
> Not using regedit.
>
> --
> George Hester
> __________________________________
> "Fred Ma" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> > >
> > > In such a case I would write a little hex-to-character converter.
> >
> >
> > In future, is there a way to export it without converting to hex?
> > This conversion seems to only afflict some entries.
> >
> > Fred
> > --
> > Fred Ma
> > Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
> > Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fred Ma wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had to reinstall windows 2000 on my Dell laptop. The support folks helped me
> to save customizations in my environment variables by exporting the registry
> at:
>
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
>
> I want to selectively cut and past snippets from the exported registry to the
> panel MyComputer->Properties->Advanced->EnvironmentVariables. However, when I
> open the exported registry with my favourite editor (vim), some of the entries
> appear to be in double-digit hex. For example, the PATH is a series of hex
> numbers separated by commas. I don't want to cut and paste that into the GUI
> panel for environment variables.
>
> Is there a way to get the text version of these environment variables?
Hi

This is how I would have done it:

Edit the registry file and "rename" the key path to e.g.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\OldEnvironment

(note the 'Old' addition)

Then import the registry file. You can now use regedit.exe to obtain
the value data snippets you want to paste to MyComputer->Properties->
Advanced->EnvironmentVariables.

When you are finished, delete the 'OldEnvironment' key


--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...r/default.mspx

nospam wrote:

> Regedit.exe in WinXP Pro gives a save to text option on right-click
> on a key. Don't know if it would work on 2000.
Hi

Saving to a text file is not implemented in Windows 2000,
only Windows XP and later.


--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...r/default.mspx

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
> Edit the registry file and "rename" the key path to e.g.
>
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\OldEnvironment
>
> (note the 'Old' addition)
>
> Then import the registry file. You can now use regedit.exe to obtain
> the value data snippets you want to paste to MyComputer->Properties->
> Advanced->EnvironmentVariables.
>
> When you are finished, delete the 'OldEnvironment' key


That had occured to me, but it seems like mucking with the
registry in a cavalier way. Didn't have the balls to do it.
But maybe that is being overly cautious (I don't know, as I
don't normally use the registry). After your reply, though,
I am assured that it isn't that unreasonable. Thanks.

Fred
--
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada