win_regedit - Add, change, or remove registry keys and values

• Synopsis
• Options
• Examples
• Return Values
• Notes
  • Status
  • Maintenance Info

Synopsis

• Add, modify or remove registry keys and values.
• More information about the windows registry from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry.

Options

Examples

- name: Create registry path MyCompany
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with entry 'hello', and containing 'world'
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: world

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with dword entry 'hello', and containing 1337 as the decimal value
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: 1337
    type: dword

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with dword entry 'hello', and containing 0xff2500ae as the hex value
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: 0xff2500ae
    type: dword

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with binary entry 'hello', and containing binary data in hex-string format
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: hex:be,ef,be,ef,be,ef,be,ef,be,ef
    type: binary

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with binary entry 'hello', and containing binary data in yaml format
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: [0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef]
    type: binary

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with expand string entry 'hello'
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: '%appdata%\local'
    type: expandstring

- name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with multi string entry 'hello'
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    data: ['hello', 'world']
    type: multistring

- name: Disable keyboard layout hotkey for all users (changes existing)
  win_regedit:
    path: HKU:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Toggle
    name: Layout Hotkey
    data: 3
    type: dword

- name: Disable language hotkey for current users (adds new)
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Keyboard Layout\Toggle
    name: Language Hotkey
    data: 3
    type: dword

- name: Remove registry path MyCompany (including all entries it contains)
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    state: absent
    delete_key: yes

- name: Clear the existing (Default) entry at path MyCompany
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    state: absent
    delete_key: no

- name: Remove entry 'hello' from registry path MyCompany
  win_regedit:
    path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany
    name: hello
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance Info

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