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Actually I tried it with ShellExecuteInfo()to save time. The /s did the 
trick. Thank you so much Gambit. This newsgroup is a God send. I will be 
hangin here regularly. So much to learn.

Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

> "Murray Nelson" <mnpicker@agt.net> wrote in message
> news:3EA4F142.2040002@agt.net...
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>>  Actually I have been using ShellExecuteInfo
>>I am trying to write a registry key to the registry with
>>a file suffixed .reg previously prepared. ShellExecuteInfo
>>works great except I get "Are you sure ..." and then I get
>>"...successfuly entered into registry". So I have to complete
>>a carriage return twice or a space bar twice to get the
>>final result. What can I put into the
>> ExecInfo.lpParameters = ""; to complete the spacebar
>>strokes?
>>
> 
> You can't send keyboard strokes with ShellExecute().  Nor can you pass
> parameters to REGEDIT.EXE because you're only specifying a filename and not
> the actual application as well, thus the lpParameters value is ignored
> completely.  You could, however, use keybd() for sending the keystrokes.
> 
> However, either way, you should instead be calling REGEDIT.EXE directly,
> passing it the .reg filename as a parameter as well as the /S flag.  That
> will prevent the message boxes from being displayed in the first place.   In
> which case, I would suggest you use CreateProcess() instead of
> ShellExecuteEx() for that.
> 
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