RE: [Nolug] Windows tab completion registry key

Don't know if anyone else would be able to use this but I'll share it
anyway. Copy this text out and make it a VBS file. This is much more quiet
the a .REG when doing a logon script. (It won't prompt the user). If someone
knows how to check the value's existence first let me know. I would like to
check it's existence then value first and modify it only if required. But
here is version 0.00001 :P

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Option Explicit

Dim WS
Dim Val

Set WS = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Val = WS.RegWrite("HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command
Processor\CompletionChar",9, "REG_DWORD")
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mischa Krilov [mailto:subs@krilov.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 4:34 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.dhs.org
Subject: [Nolug] Windows tab completion registry key

Gang,

During this month's meeting, it was revealed that I know the secret to
getting tab completion under W2K. Some might consider this slightly
off-topic, but the majority of the meeting this month wanted to know.

So:

1. Run regedit
2. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Command Processor
3. Change the value for "CompletionCharacter" to 9

IIRC, there's some weirdness when completing files versus folders.

I leave the making of an actual .reg file an exercise for the reader.
(Enjoy, Tom!)

Hope this helps,

Mischa.

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