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Archive for October 16th, 2023

When reg.exe gives you “ERROR: Invalid key name.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/16

Be careful phrasing reg.exe commands.

Sometimes it gives you the error ERROR: Invalid key name.

The reason is that the reg.exe is really sensitive on the order of the command-line: the first argument must be a full key, optionally prepended by a computername.

Any other optional command-line option (like /f to force execution without asking) needs to go after that.

See:

–jeroen

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