Computer Name

Yepper -- Typo city, I meant Oy vey ;-)

--
Dave




"heirloom" wrote in message
...
| I'm in no way Yiddish, but, shouldn't that have been "oy vey?" Either way,
| it's the shiznit! In the words of the famous Paul Harvey, "....and now you
| know the rest of the skinny."
| Heirloom, old and something ain't quite right.
|
| BTW, I will be holding Mr. Jack Martinelli, MS-MVP, hostage, starting Friday
| morning. If anyone would like to contribute to his release fund...post back
| here. g Gonna keep him on a diet of cheap Texas wine and chili......talk
| about a pressurized cabin on his flight home!

What??......no offerings for the release of Mr. Martinelli????
Heirloom, old and may have to make more chili


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
Yepper -- Typo city, I meant Oy vey ;-)

--
Dave




"heirloom" wrote in message
...
| I'm in no way Yiddish, but, shouldn't that have been "oy vey?" Either
way,
| it's the shiznit! In the words of the famous Paul Harvey, "....and now
you
| know the rest of the skinny."
| Heirloom, old and something ain't quite
right.
|
| BTW, I will be holding Mr. Jack Martinelli, MS-MVP, hostage, starting
Friday
| morning. If anyone would like to contribute to his release fund...post
back
| here. g Gonna keep him on a diet of cheap Texas wine and
chili......talk
| about a pressurized cabin on his flight home!

I'm impressed.
Heirloom, old and easily amused


"Shane" wrote in message
...
REGEDIT /E regtest.tmp
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\ComputerName"

This wrapped and should be one line.


Shane

Here's a slightly more economical version. Remembering that

regedit /e regtest.tmp
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\ComputerName"

should be on one line, run the batch as is and you'll get the *crapped out*
message. Replace *2nd_comp_name_here* with your own computer name and you'll
see it works. Whatever the batch is supposed to do on the correct machine,
you just replace *find /i "=" regtest.tmp* with the appropriate command.
It'll work whether 98/ME or NT/XP.

Actually I'm fairly sure the regedit /e would also work on NT/XP so there's
no need for a seperate section (wrong machine right now to test it. You can
certainly merge reg files using regedit /s in either kernel).

Of course, it's no good if you want to get an unknown computer name from the
registry and put it into a variable, but afaics one is supposed to know the
possible computer names in advance.

-----------------------------------

@echo off
cls
if "%OS%"=="WINDOWS_NT" goto nt_section
regedit /e regtest.tmp
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\ComputerName"
find /i "1st_comp_name_here" regtest.tmp
if errorlevel==1 goto next1
goto action
:next1
find /i "2nd_comp_name_here" regtest.tmp
if errorlevel==1 goto last
goto action
:nt_section
If not "%ComputerName%"=="1st_comp_name_here" goto next2
goto action
:next2
If not "%ComputerName%"=="2nd_comp_name_here" goto last
goto action
:last
cls
echo.
echo Hmm, crapped out, I see!
pausenul
goto end
:action
cls
find /i "=" regtest.tmp
pausenul
:end
del *.tmp
cls
exit
cls

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Shane

If you're feeding him chilli then he doesn't need a release fund - just a
back-blast protector!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"heirloom" wrote in message
...
What??......no offerings for the release of Mr. Martinelli????
Heirloom, old and may have to make more chili


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
Yepper -- Typo city, I meant Oy vey ;-)

--
Dave




"heirloom" wrote in message
...
| I'm in no way Yiddish, but, shouldn't that have been "oy vey?" Either
way,
| it's the shiznit! In the words of the famous Paul Harvey, "....and now
you
| know the rest of the skinny."
| Heirloom, old and something ain't quite
right.
|
| BTW, I will be holding Mr. Jack Martinelli, MS-MVP, hostage, starting
Friday
| morning. If anyone would like to contribute to his release fund...post
back
| here. g Gonna keep him on a diet of cheap Texas wine and
chili......talk
| about a pressurized cabin on his flight home!

lol And he could probably propel himself home without the need for an
aeroplane g
Joan

Noel Paton wrote:
If you're feeding him chilli then he doesn't need a release fund - just a
back-blast protector!

Tried this batch on my XP Home and it didn't work as is. Apparently %OS% is
case sensitive, so it works with "Windows_NT" but not all uppercase. And I
don't have a %ComputerName% variable, I have %UserDomain%.
Appropriate changes and it works, but then the 9x method also works, so the
nt_section section is redundant.


Shane

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Here's a slightly more economical version. Remembering that

regedit /e regtest.tmp
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\ComputerName"

should be on one line, run the batch as is and you'll get the *crapped
out*
message. Replace *2nd_comp_name_here* with your own computer name and
you'll
see it works. Whatever the batch is supposed to do on the correct machine,
you just replace *find /i "=" regtest.tmp* with the appropriate command.
It'll work whether 98/ME or NT/XP.

Actually I'm fairly sure the regedit /e would also work on NT/XP so
there's
no need for a seperate section (wrong machine right now to test it. You
can
certainly merge reg files using regedit /s in either kernel).

Of course, it's no good if you want to get an unknown computer name from
the
registry and put it into a variable, but afaics one is supposed to know
the
possible computer names in advance.

-----------------------------------

@echo off
cls
if "%OS%"=="WINDOWS_NT" goto nt_section
regedit /e regtest.tmp
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\ComputerName"
find /i "1st_comp_name_here" regtest.tmp
if errorlevel==1 goto next1
goto action
:next1
find /i "2nd_comp_name_here" regtest.tmp
if errorlevel==1 goto last
goto action
:nt_section
If not "%ComputerName%"=="1st_comp_name_here" goto next2
goto action
:next2
If not "%ComputerName%"=="2nd_comp_name_here" goto last
goto action
:last
cls
echo.
echo Hmm, crapped out, I see!
pausenul
goto end
:action
cls
find /i "=" regtest.tmp
pausenul
:end
del *.tmp
cls
exit
cls

------------------------

Shane