script to set default page to a specific address in google chrome

page='"https://www.google.com"'#provide your default page here

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import os

import ctypes

import getpass

import _winreg

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def CheckApp(AppName):

    import _winreg

    import os

    AppName = AppName.lower()

    def DNDS(rtkey, pK, kA):

        ln = []

        lv = []

        try:

            oK = _winreg.OpenKey(rtkey, pK, 0, kA)

            i = 0

            while True:

                try:

                    bkey = _winreg.EnumKey(oK, i)

                    vkey = os.path.join(pK, bkey)

                    oK1 = _winreg.OpenKey(rtkey, vkey, 0, kA)

                    try:

                        tls = []

                        DN, bla = _winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1, 'DisplayName')

                        DV, bla = _winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1, 'DisplayVersion')

                        _winreg.CloseKey(oK1)

                        ln.append(DN)

                        lv.append(DV)

                    except:

                        pass

                    i += 1

                except:

                    break

            _winreg.CloseKey(oK)

            return zip(ln, lv)

        except:

            return zip(ln, lv)

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    rK = _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

    sK = r'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment'

    openedKey = _winreg.OpenKey(rK, sK, 0, _winreg.KEY_READ)

    arch, bla = _winreg.QueryValueEx(openedKey, 'PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE')

    arch = str(arch)

    _winreg.CloseKey(openedKey)

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    if arch == 'AMD64':

        fList = DNDS(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall', _winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ)

        fList.extend(DNDS(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall', _winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ))

        fList.extend(DNDS(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall', _winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ))

        fList.extend(DNDS(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall', _winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ))

    else:

        fList = DNDS(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall', _winreg.KEY_READ)

        fList.extend(DNDS(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall', _winreg.KEY_READ))

    fList = set(fList)

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    lr = []

    rs = 0

    for i in fList:

        a, b = i

        if AppName in a.lower():

            lr.append('success: {} is installed'.format(a))

            lr.append('{:<25}{:5}'.format(a, b))

            rs += 1

        else:

            rs += 0

    if rs:

        return True

    return False

AppName='Google Chrome'

ck=CheckApp(AppName)

if ck:

    print("Chrome Installed")

else:

    raise Exception("Chrome is not installed in the system")

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path='"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"'

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kk=getpass.getuser()

drive=os.environ['SYSTEMDRIVE']

k = drive+"\\Users\\%s\\Desktop" %(kk)

sh1=os.path.join(k,r'Google Chrome.lnk')

sh="C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Google Chrome.lnk"

if os.path.exists(sh) or os.path.exists(sh1):

    try:

        os.remove(sh)

    except:

        os.remove(sh1)

vbs='''Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

allUsersDesktop = objShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")

usersDesktop = objShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")

Set objShortCut = objShell.CreateShortcut(usersDesktop & "\Google Chrome.lnk")

objShortCut.TargetPath = %s

objShortCut.Description = "Run the Notepad."

objShortCut.WindowStyle = 1

objShortCut.Hotkey = "CTRL+SHIFT+F"

objShortCut.Description = "Shortcut Script"

objShortCut.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop

objShortCut.Arguments = %s 

objShortCut.Save

''' %(path,page)

def runvbs(vbs):

    workdir=os.environ['PROGRAMDATA']+r'\temp'

    if not os.path.isdir(workdir): 

        os.mkdir(workdir)

    with open(workdir+r'\temprun.vbs',"w") as f :

        f.write(vbs)        

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    print(os.popen('cscript.exe "'+workdir+r'\temprun.vbs"').read())

    if os.path.isfile(workdir+r'\temprun.vbs'):

        os.remove(workdir+r'\temprun.vbs')

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runvbs(vbs) 

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