Exception calling "Replace" with "2" argument(s): "String cannot be of zero length.

[grische]

When trying to run the script, it complains about a zero-length string, but continues nevertheless.

Exception calling "Replace" with "2" argument(s): "String cannot be of zero length.
Parameter name: oldValue"
At C:\Users\User1\Downloads\Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool\Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool-master\PostInstall\PostInstall.
ps1:395 char:9
+         (Get-Content "C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\gpt.ini").Repla ...
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

It seems like $GPO is empty.

Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool/PostInstall/PostInstall.ps1

Lines 392 to 397 in 3a409b8

	$GPO = $gptstring -match "gPCMachineExtensionNames"
	$add = '[{42B5FAAE-6536-11D2-AE5A-0000F87571E3}{40B6664F-4972-11D1-A7CA-0000F87571E3}]'
	$replace = "$GPO" + "$add"
	(Get-Content "C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\gpt.ini").Replace("$GPO","$replace") | Set-Content "C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\gpt.ini"
	[int]$i = $gpoversion.trim("Version=")
	[int]$n = $gpoversion.trim("Version=")

I ran the instructions from the README:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = "tls12, tls11, tls" 
$ScriptWebArchive = "https://github.com/parsec-cloud/Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool/archive/master.zip"  
$LocalArchivePath = "$ENV:UserProfile\Downloads\Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool"  
(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($ScriptWebArchive, "$LocalArchivePath.zip")  
Expand-Archive "$LocalArchivePath.zip" -DestinationPath $LocalArchivePath -Force  
CD $LocalArchivePath\Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool-master\PostInstall
powershell.exe .\PostInstall.ps1 -DontPromptPasswordUpdateGPU