The below steps will slow you how to set the permissions on a given registry key using Group Policy, this is vey useful is you want to run a script with user privileges that needs to modify a certain registry key.

Just a basic example how to get a value from the registry using a VB script, here I am finding where Lotus Notes is installed. 

Problem:

If like me you are tring to add an alias to an existing computer so you can access it via two different DNS names and you receive the below message, then read on;

“You Were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again”