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Importing and Exporting sections of the registry to a .reg file

Importing and Exporting sections of the registry to a .reg file

Below are two useful routines to import and export sections of the registry to a ".reg" file. Note, a demonstration routine can be found at the bottom of this article.

Option Explicit

'Purpose     :  Exports a section of the registry to a .reg file
'Inputs      :  sKey                    The registry key to export.
'               sFilename               The file name to export the registry file to.
'Outputs     :  N/A
'Notes       :  Uses commandline variables to call Regedit.exe


Sub RegeditExport(sKey As String, sFilename As String)
    Shell "regedit.exe /s /e " & Chr(34) & sFilename & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & sKey & Chr(34), vbHide
End Sub



'Purpose     :  Imports a windows registry file (.reg) to the registry.
'Inputs      :  sFilename               The path and file name of the file to import.
'Outputs     :  N/A
'Notes       :  Uses commandline variables to call Regedit.exe


Sub RegeditImport(sFilename As String)
    Shell "regedit.exe /s /c " & Chr(34) & sFilename & Chr(34), vbHide
End Sub


'Demonstration routine
Sub Test()
    'Export a section from the VB and VBA program settings to a file
    RegeditExport "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\VBusersFTP\Connections", "C:\FTP Settings.reg"
    'Import this section back in
    RegeditImport "C:\FTP Settings.reg"
End Sub