Presentation Director automated scheme import

Hi All,
hope everyone is well.
Does anyone know if its possible to somehow import Presentation Director schemes from the command line or if there is any other way to do it?
I wanted to create a single scheme on one of my test machines, export it and then create a package which can then be run on users machines which will import it.
I hope someone can give me a little advice here. I have been looking up this topic on Google but I did not manage to find anything.
Thanks a lot.
Stu.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi,
thanks very much for your reply, unfortunately that did not work for me :-(
But I did manage to find another solution, if you export the relevant registry scheme from here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lenovo\NPdirect\Data\Common\Presentation Schemes\
You can easily import it on other machines. Hope that will help other people who need to so the same steps.
Thanks.

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