JSI Tip 9235. How can a script determine the hardware profile that is currently booted?

Using REG.EXE, built into Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and later, or installed on Windows 2000 from the Support Tools on the operating system CD-ROM, I have scripted HardwareProfile.bat to return the active hardware profile key number and friendly name.

The syntax for using HardwareProfile.bat is:

call HardwareProfile Number FriendlyName

Where:

Number       is a call directed environment variable that will contain the  of the active profile,             as in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlIDConfigDBHardware Profiles.FriendlyName is a call directed environment variable that will contain the friendly name of the active profile.

HardwareProfile.bat contains:

@echo offif {%1}=={} @echo Syntax: HardwareProfile Number FriendlyName&goto :EOFsetlocalfor /f "Tokens=2*" %%a in ('reg query "HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlIDConfigDB" /V CurrentConfig^|FIND "REG_DWORD"') do ( set /a profile=%%b)set /a profile=%profile% + 10000set profile=%profile:~1%for /f "Tokens=2*" %%a in ('reg query "HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlIDConfigDBHardware Profiles%profile%" /V FriendlyName^|Find "REG_SZ"') do ( set FN=%%b)endlocal&set %1=%profile%&set %2=%FN%