Question about shortcuts for Registry values

[t4akawolf]

Greetings my fellow Landwalkers,

I created a 'NoTrayItemDisplay' DWORD with a value of 1 for a program. What I want to know is, can I create shortcuts to modify/change it's value from 1 to 0 and vice versa?

The ideal solution for me would be creating two shortcuts; one which modifies the value to 0 and another which modifies the value to 1.

The perfect solution for me would be some sort of Value Toggle which can toggle between both values...

So, how do I do either of the above solutions? Or is there another solution out there?

 

[Dwarf]

What is the registry location?

 

[t4akawolf]

What is the registry location?

If you are referring to the place where the DWORD is located, then it is
" Computer\KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent "

Sorry, I'm a bit of a...scratch that, I AM a noob in these matters. Remember how I said I created a DWORD, well I had to follow step by step instructions to do so...

 

[Dwarf]

Here you go. Copy and paste the codes below into Notepad and save them with a suitable name, giving them a .bat extension.

@ECHO OFF
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent" /v "NoTrayItemDisplay" /t REG_DWORD /d "00000000" /f

@ECHO OFF
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent" /v "NoTrayItemDisplay" /t REG_DWORD /d "00000001" /f

 

[t4akawolf]

Here you go. Copy and paste the codes below into Notepad and save them with a suitable name, giving them a .bat extension.

@ECHO OFF
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent" /v "NoTrayItemDisplay" /t REG_DWORD /d "00000000" /f

@ECHO OFF
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent" /v "NoTrayItemDisplay" /t REG_DWORD /d "00000001" /f

Hmmmm, most odd...I tried that and the value does seem to change when I check in Regedit but now, whatever I set the value to, uTorrent seems to open with the icon. Before I created the shortcut, setting the value to 1 manually used to stop the icon...what did I do wrong??

 

[WindowsStar]

Here is a VBScript to flip it back and forth.

' Change Registry Key v1.1.1
' Programmed WindowsStar - Copyright (c) 2010
' ---------------------------------------------------
On Error Resume Next
Set WShShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Value = WSHShell.RegRead ("HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay")
If Value = "0" Then
   WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay", 00000001, "REG_DWORD"
Else
   WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay", 00000000, "REG_DWORD"
End If
WshShell.Popup "          Done!",5,"Script Message"

 

[t4akawolf]

Here is a VBScript to flip it back and forth.

' Change Registry Key v1.1.1
' Programmed WindowsStar - Copyright (c) 2010
' ---------------------------------------------------
On Error Resume Next
Set WShShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Value = WSHShell.RegRead ("HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay")
If Value = "0" Then
   WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay", 00000001, "REG_DWORD"
Else
   WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay", 00000000, "REG_DWORD"
End If
WshShell.Popup "          Done!",5,"Script Message"

Thanks!

 

[WindowsStar]

Here is a VBScript to flip it back and forth.

' Change Registry Key v1.1.1
' Programmed WindowsStar - Copyright (c) 2010
' ---------------------------------------------------
On Error Resume Next
Set WShShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Value = WSHShell.RegRead ("HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay")
If Value = "0" Then
   WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay", 00000001, "REG_DWORD"
Else
   WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\BitTorrent\uTorrent\NoTrayItemDisplay", 00000000, "REG_DWORD"
End If
WshShell.Popup "          Done!",5,"Script Message"

Thanks!

You are very welcome.