Thanks.

I started to look at SQLDMO already, but was hoping I can avoid it ...(Will I end up with the same "encoding issue" at the end?)

in .Net it...

Yes, I have code that uses SMO and it runs ... (it is quite similar to yours, only it is in C#). That code however changes xml file, but not...

As explained in my first post, I have similar code in c#, works perfectly for SQL2005, but not SQL 2000.

(more precisely: the xml file is changed, but...

Thank you for a quick replay about changing the registry …

I now have c# code that updates the registry, however, I have no idea, what encoding to use for...