> Have a situation where I have a couple of hundred installs of some software
> that is being corrupted by registry entries left over in the:

> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Offending Software Key"

> from previous installs of an earlier version of the software. Would like to
> delete the key "Offending Software Key" and all its subkeys with a vbs
> script. (There are several hundred subkeys). I have figured out how to
> delete individual keys - however I would just like to be able to easily
> delete the top key ("Offending Software Key") and take all the sub keys with
> it. Is there a way to do this?

> > Have a situation where I have a couple of hundred installs of some
software
> > that is being corrupted by registry entries left over in the:

> > "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Offending Software Key"

> > from previous installs of an earlier version of the software. Would like
to
> > delete the key "Offending Software Key" and all its subkeys with a vbs
> > script. (There are several hundred subkeys). I have figured out how to
> > delete individual keys - however I would just like to be able to easily
> > delete the top key ("Offending Software Key") and take all the sub keys
with
> > it. Is there a way to do this?

> Hi

> 3 different methods described in the link below...

> VBScript/WMI, command line utility Reg.exe, as well as with regedit.exe
and a
> reg file:

> From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP)
> Subject: Re: How to remove REG keys?
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.registry
> Date: 2003-03-26 07:21:46 PST
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E81C511.2F197B01%40hydro.com

> --
> 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/scriptcenter