Windows Registry Wizard

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(imported topic written by ahousten91)

I tried to use the Windows Registry Wizard to create a task that will turn on the screen saver on Windows 7 PC. The key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaveActive and needs to be set to 1. The relevance created by the wizard is

(name of operating system = “Win7”) AND (exists value “ScreenSaveActive” whose (“1” != it) of key (“HKEY_USERS” & (string value of select ((“SID from win32_useraccount where NAME=’” & item 1 of it & “’ and DOMAIN=’” & item 0 of it & “’”) of (preceding text of first “” of it, following text of first “” of it) of (string values of selects “UserName from win32_computersystem” of it)) of wmi) & “\Control Panel\Desktop”) of native registry) AND (exists ((string values of selects “UserName from Win32_ComputerSystem” of wmi) , (members of local group “administrators” as string)) whose (item 0 of it = item 1 of it))

and the action script is

action uses wow64 redirection false

delete __createfile

delete wizardedit.reg

createfile until @end_create_reg_file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

“ScreenSaveActive”=“1”

@end_create_reg_file

move __createfile wizardedit.reg

prefetch RunAsCurrentUser.exe sha1:ee47505ebfb2790b9da8a20ed70e67158e9753d0 size:342528 http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe

utility __Download\RunAsCurrentUser.exe

waithidden “__Download\RunAsCurrentUser.exe” --w regedit /s “wizardedit.reg”

The problem is that it doesn’t show as relevant for ANY of the clients.

I also tried to deploy it to a specific machine where I know that registry key is set to 0 but it says it’s not relevant.

Any ideas?

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(imported comment written by liuhoting)

I would try troubleshooting with the fixlet debugger and see if I can figure out why that relevance expression evaluates to false on clients. With the fixlet debugger graphical view (tab 3) you can actually paste your expression in and see exactly where that relevance is evaluating to false.

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(imported comment written by ahousten91)

Unfortunately that doesn’t really help. While it does show “False” below the 2nd “Exists”, the subsequent tree beyond that doesn’t show any additional False evaluations.