Software Deployment

Hi.

You have too many double quotes for the syntax. To put a double quote inside the data, you need to use the \" sequence. Try this instead of what you wrote:

REG ADD HKCR\http\shell\open\command /v (Default) /T REG_SZ /D "\"c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -requestPending -osint -url "\"%1\"" /f"

This should give you a (Default) key with:
"c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "%1" /f

Runs fine but there should be %1 between the quotes in the end. Thanks for ur help though

Default value looks like this:
"c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "" /f

Uh, I don't know what you're looking at but what I'm looking at does show the %1 in both the syntax line I gave you and the example I gave you...

don't know y but its not working for me dude.

Who's still writing batch these days? VBScript it...

The %1 is a parameter that passes values from the command line. So, since you are running the batch file, it is looking for something from the command line to replace %1 with (which would be the first string after the batch file name). Since there is nothing on the command line (or if you are just double-clicking the batch file), it is using NULL, hence the blank double quotes ("") at the end.

So, unless you are going to run the batch file and pass a literal string of "%1" to your command line, a batch file probably isn't going to work for you. You might need to go the route of a VBScript instead.

I don't see bat files much these days although I can understand their appeal for non-programmers. for me vbscript was a steep learning curve, but scriptomatic was a lifesaver. And all the free code out there. But now they say vbs is outmoded and powershell is the coming script language. c# would be good to know too.