Clear the PendingFileRenameOperations registry value

Question

One of my troubleshooting steps is to clear the PendingFileRenameOperations registry value to avoid rebooting a server.

What I would like to do is clear this through a batch file, I don't want to delete it, just clear it.

It's the following registry value

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Session Manager/PendingFileRenameOperations

Answer 1

The command

%SystemRoot%\System32\reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager" /v PendingFileRenameOperations /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d "" /f

replaces current value of multi-string value PendingFileRenameOperations with an empty string.

The path you wrote in the question does not exist on my Windows 7 x64 machine.

For details on command reg open a command prompt window and run there first reg /? and second reg add /?

But why clearing this registry value used to delete or replace (usually update) files after reboot before Windows loads drivers and starts processes and applications should avoid rebooting a Windows server is beyond my understanding.

Answer 2

Some software just checks for the key existence and doesn't care if its blank,So For deleting Key,Use My Way :

reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager" /v PendingFileRenameOperations /f