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AddOn-wmi-multi.vbs

By The Scripting Guys, Microsoft Corporation

This script runs against multiple computers to disable a specific Internet Explorer add-on. It makes this change by editing the registry using the WMI System Registry provider. You must edit the registry path to insert the correct CLSID of the add-on component to be disabled. To identify the CLSID of an add-on component, search the registry for the add-on name that is located in the Manage Add-ons interface.

Addon-wmi-multi.vbs corresponds to AddOn.vbs, one of the scripts that ships with Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and which are documented in the Appendix. You can download a Windows Installer (.msi) file that installs the Guide and its associated scripts from:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9300BECF-2DEE-4772-ADD9-AD0EAF89C4A7&displaylang=en

Input for this script comes from a text file, addon-hosts.txt, which contains the names of computers against which the script will run.

Each line of the input file must contain the name of a computer. Each computer must be accessible on the network and the credentials under which the script is run must have administrative privileges on it. For example:

client1
client2
server1
server2

Be sure there is no line break after the final line, as this will be interpreted by the script as an empty string.

To use the script, copy the code, paste it into Notepad, and then save the script as addon-wmi-multi.vbs. Then create a text file with the name of a computer on each line, as described above, and save it as addon-hosts.txt in the same directory as the script. To run the script, open a command prompt window to the directory of the script and type:

cscript addon-wmi-multi.vbs

If the default script host on the computer is Cscript.exe, the initial "cscript" may be omitted.

Script Code

'******************************************************************************
'AddOn-wmi-multi.vbs
'Author: Peter Costantini, the Microsoft Scripting Guys
'Date: 8/25/04
'Revision 1.0
'This script can be run against multiple computers to remotely 
'disable a specific Internet Explorer add-on by editing the registry.
'You must edit the registry path to insert the correct CLSID of
'the add-on component to be disabled. To identify the CLSID of an add-on
'component, search the registry for the add-on name that is located in the
'Manage Add-ons interface.
'The multiple computers must be specified in a text file,
'addon-hosts.txt, in the same directory as the script.
'Each line of addon-hosts.txt must contain a computer name.
'Do not add a newline to the end of the last line.
'Example:
'client1
'client2
'server1
'server2
'******************************************************************************

On Error Resume Next

'Global constants and variables
Const FOR_READING = 1
Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strFilename = "addon-hosts.txt"
g_strKeyPathA = "Software\Microsoft\Windows" & _
 "\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3}"
g_strKeyPathB = "Software\Microsoft\Windows" & _
 "\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3}\iexplore"

'If text file exists, read list of hosts and operation for each.
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSO.FileExists(strFilename) Then
  Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFilename, FOR_READING)
Else
  WScript.Echo "Input file " & strFilename & " not found."
  WScript.Quit
End If
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
'Get name of computer.
  strComputer = objFile.ReadLine
  Wscript.Echo VbCrLf & strComputer
  Wscript.Echo String(Len(strComputer), "-")
'Connect with WMI service and StdRegProv class.
  Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
   strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
  If Err = 0 Then
    blnCreateSubKeys = CreateSubKeys
    If blnCreateSubKeys Then
      SetValues
    End If
  Else
    WScript.Echo "ERROR: Unable to connect to WMI StdRegProv on " & _
     strComputer & "."
    WScript.Echo "  Error Number: " & Err.Number
    WScript.Echo "  Source: " & Err.Source
    WScript.Echo "  Description: " & Err.Description
  End If
  Err.Clear
Loop
objFile.Close

'******************************************************************************

Function CreateSubKeys

intReturnA = objReg.CreateKey(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathA)
If intReturnA <> 0 Then
  WScript.Echo "ERROR: Unable to create registry path:" & VbCrLf & _
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & strKeyPathA
End If
intReturnB = objReg.CreateKey(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathB)
If intReturnB <> 0 Then
  WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "ERROR: Unable to create registry path:" & VbCrLf & _
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & strKeyPathB
End If
If (intReturnA = 0) And (intReturnB = 0) Then
  WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "Created registry subkeys:" & VbCrLf & _
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & g_strKeyPathA & VbCrLf & "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & _
   g_strKeyPathB
  CreateSubKeys = True
Else
  WScript.Echo "Unable to create registry subkeys."
  CreateSubKeys = False
End If

End Function

'******************************************************************************

Sub SetValues

'Local variables
strEntryNameA1 = "Flags"
strEntryNameA2 = "Version"
intValueA1 = 1
strValueA2 = "*"
strEntryNameB1 = "Blocked"
strEntryNameB2 = "Count"
strEntryNameB3 = "Type"
strEntryNameB4 = "Time"
intValueB1 = 4
intValueB2 = &Hdf
intValueB3 = 3
arrValueB4 = Array(&Hd4, &H07, &H07, &H00, &H04, &H00, &H1d, &H00, &H0c, _
 &H00, &H20, &H00, &H2b, &H00, &H80, &H00)

intReturnA1 = objReg.SetDWORDValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathA, _
 strEntryNameA1, intValueA1)
intReturnA2 = objReg.SetStringValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathA, _
 strEntryNameA2, strValueA2)
If (intReturnA1 = 0) And (intReturnA2 = 0) Then
  WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "Added registry entries to:" & VbCrLf & _
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & g_strKeyPathA & VbCrLf & _
   "Entry: " & strEntryNameA1 & VbTab & "Value: " & intValueA1 & VbCrLf & _
   "Entry: " & strEntryNameA2 & VbTab & "Value: " & strValueA2
Else
  WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "ERROR: Unable to add registry entries to:" & _
   VbCrLf & "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & g_strKeyPathA & "."
End If

intReturnB1 = objReg.SetDWORDValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathB, _
 strEntryNameB1, intValueB1)
intReturnB2 = objReg.SetDWORDValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathB, _
 strEntryNameB2, intValueB2)
intReturnB3 = objReg.SetDWORDValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathB, _
 strEntryNameB3, intValueB3)
intReturnB4 = objReg.SetBinaryValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_strKeyPathB, _
 strEntryNameB4, arrValueB4)
If (intReturnB1 = 0) And (intReturnB2 = 0) And (intReturnB3 = 0) _
 And (intReturnB4 = 0) Then
  For Each Value in arrValueB4
    strValueB4 = strValueB4 & Hex(Value) & " "
  Next
  WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "Added registry entries to:" & VbCrLf & _
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & g_strKeyPathA & VbCrLf & _
   "Entry: " & strEntryNameB1 & VbTab & "Value: " & Hex(intValueB1) & _
   VbCrLf & "Entry: " & strEntryNameB2 & VbTab & "Value: " & _
   Hex(intValueB2) & VbCrLf & "Entry: " & strEntryNameB3 & VbTab & _
   "Value: " & Hex(intValueB3) & VbCrLf & "Entry: " & strEntryNameB4 & _
   VbTab & "Value: " & strValueB4
Else
  WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "ERROR: Unable to add registry entries to:" & _
   VbCrLf & "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" & g_strKeyPathB & "."
End If

End Sub

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