I want to query our client PCs to find out what shell they load Windows with. Your see some of our PCs boot using an in-house written Citrix shell and I want to find out which rigs are still using the standard NT4 Explorer.exe shell. Means interrogating the registry but I can't figure out how to do that using the built-in query statements.

Bit of a shot in the dark but if anyone can help, excellent.

Jodster

 

you cant if I remember rightly... hang on and Ill have a play..

David

 

Found this...

Well, there's the right way, then there's the quick and dirty way. Right way, you'll have to read up on myITforum about putting stuff in a MIF form, or pulling the reg data using the MOF.

The quick way would be to write a script to check the key. If it's 1, put a 0 byte file called screenenabled.exe somewhere on the box (we have an SMSTEMP folder we use for stuff like this). The next SINV thats done, this file will grabbed, and you can do a query on who has the "screenenabled" software on their machine. These will be the people with the "1" in their registry...

Let me know if you get stuck...

David

 

Thanks Dave, dirty way sounds good. I'll have a crack tomorrow.