Need Help with Desktop Shortcut(s) Launching to Check and Write to Registry

PowerShell Help
1

Any help would be VERY appreciated.
I’m new into Powershell and inherited a project at work that is a more advanced than my current knowledge of this.

I have two desktop shortcuts that launch modules to an application. One is called “Review”, the other “Validation”.

Our Users move around a lot to other workstations. There are user-specific settings that I want to have checked at Review or Validation shortcut launch, and IF they do not exist, write them to their respective Reg locations before opening the the modules.

Reason: This seems to the be only way to truly prevent AutoOpenNextBatch

These are the Reg keys I’m looking to check/write. If they already exist for the user, it can ignore.

HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview
• AutoCloseBatch = 0
• AutoOpenNextBatch = 0
• ExpandProblemsOnLoad = 2

HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\Validation
• AutoOpenNextBatch = 0
• ConfirmDocSaving = 0

Huge thanks to anyone that give me some direction here.

2

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Review

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty((Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).AutoCloseBatch))
{
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -Name AutoCloseBatch -Value 0
}

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty((Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).AutoOpenNextBatch))
{
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -Name AutoCloseBatch -Value 0
}

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty((Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).ExpandProblemsOnLoad))
{
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -Name AutoCloseBatch -Value 2
}

Validation

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty((Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\Validation -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).AutoOpenNextBatch))
{
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -Name AutoCloseBatch -Value 0
}

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty((Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\Validation -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).ConfirmDocSaving))
{
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\Software\Kofax\Transformation\4.0\DocumentReview -Name AutoCloseBatch -Value 0
}

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3

Thank you, Kiran. I’m looking forward to trying this. The one thing I still need to figure out is how to run this each time the shortcut(s) are launched.
Any suggestions?

4

You can create a ‘.ps1’ file and run the script before you can run the shortcut or add this script to your main script or function.

5

Awesome! Thank you, Kiran

6

one thing to note in Kiran’s code is the path will be an issue. HKCU is a PSDrive and needs a colon before the path. See below for an example:

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Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\software\Microsoft\Calc

Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU\software\Microsoft\Calc

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7

That’s correct, I didn’t notice, just copied it from @BigDaddyB92 original post.

Thank you.

8

Good catch! Thanks, Logan.