Registry Tools

Cygwin Command Line Registry tool
Command line registry tool, read and write (unlike the demo at sysinternals.com, or is it winternals.com...) http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#REGTOOL
Regedit has some useful commandline options too:
http://techsupt.winbatch.com/TS/T000001029F18.html
A sample on writing to registry with WSH from:
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/wsh/quickref/wshshell_RegWrite.html

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCUMyNewKey", 1 ,"REG_DWORD"
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCUMyNewKeyMyValue", "Hello world!"
WScript.Echo WshShell.RegRead("HKCUMyNewKeyMyValue")
WScript.Echo WshShell.RegRead("HKCUMyNewKey")
WshShell.RegDelete "HKCUMyNewKeyMyValue"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKCUMyNewKey"
A post about how to get the SID of a user.
Edit the registry without being able to boot - I have not tested it yet, but the Kaspersky bootable Rescue CD has a link to a registry tool.
Registry Snapshot Comparison tool (think before and after) - OSS - https://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/?source=navbar

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