Action Script Failure due to Relevance Substitution Error

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Any Help with this would be greatly appreciated:

Here is the Action Script Code:
if {((not exists key “HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel” of registry) OR (not exists value “{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}” of key “HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel” of registry) OR (value “{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}” of key “HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel” of registry != 0))}
regset “[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]” “{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}”=dword:0
endif

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Hello!

The issue here is likely associated with the curly brackets ( { } ) in the regset command. See Tip: Escaping curly brackets for substitutions in ActionScript for more information and guidance.

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Agree the script is failing because of the curly-bracket escapes that are needed, but I also think this will probably not do what you expect.

The HKEY_USERS\.Default hive is not the Default Profile used when new users log on. It’s the profile of the LocalSystem account. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070302-00/?p=27783 for details.

To make a change that applies to all User Profiles, I’d recommend using Local Group Policy (example https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/26933), or Startup/Logon Script, or ActiveSetup (example Action That Runs Once per User ) , or (worst-case) use ‘reg load’ to load the ntuser.dat to a new Hive, update that Hive, and then use ‘reg unload’ to unload the ntuser.dat for the Default User profile.

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Thank you for your quick response, this solved my issue and it took doubling the braces in several locations to make it work, here is the final code that worked:

if {((not exists key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel" of registry) OR (not exists value "{{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}}" of key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel" of registry) OR (value "{{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}}" of key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel" of registry != 0))}
	regset "[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]" "{{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"=dword:0
endif
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