A. Reg.exe is a tool that ships with Windows XP (and comes as part of the Windows 2000 resource kits) that lets you manipulate the registry from the command line. To pass a value that contains quotes, you must add a slash (\) before each quote as an escape sequence. For example,
G:\>reg add HKLM\Software\sav /v test /t REG_SZ /d "%userprofile%"
adds the user profile value without the quotes. However,
G:\>reg add HKLM\Software\sav /v test /t REG_SZ /d "\"%userprofile%\""
maintains the quotes around the user profile value. For example, for user profile savijo, including the slashes sets the registry value to "G:\Documents and Settings\savijo" rather than just G:\Documents and Settings\savijo.
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