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Thank you Dragokas -
A little bit of revising but it worked out nice.

Is it possible to loop this script in a for each command to perform on each file in a given folder? @echo off set "replace=system" set "replaced=offline" set "source=control.reg" set "target=control2.reg" setlocal enableDelayedExpansion ( for /F "tokens=1...

That worked greatly. Thank you for the assistance.

Here is my demima: from your PC, go to regedit and export the following hive as "control.reg" - [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase] Then with the following code tell me if you can change the the word "SYSTEM" to "offline" (on each li...

My output file still seems to be blank. I change the values for the 4 "set" lines to match my environment - am I missings something?

penpen,
I tried this - it seems to just create a blank file with the given "target" name. No changes in the origial file as reqested even given the settings for replaced and replace that don't seem to change.

Is it possible for a batch file to: search a given text file for a given word/string and change that word/string then save it with the changes? I have search online but not finding this specific script that will help. The file I am looking to work with is a .reg file if that helps. Thank you.

Thank you greatly aGerman. That works!

Could someone please assist with the correct syntax for this? It errors out after seeing the second file in the string if it doesn't exist. Thank you, for /f "tokens=*" %%X in (hal.dll halacpi.dll halmacpi.dll kernel32.dll ntdll.dll ntoskrnl.exe win32k.sys winload.exe winsrv.dll) do (if ex...