Registry finder software

Description RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item.

You can also export the found Registry values into a. Search for other utilities in NirSoft Advantages over RegEdit find of Windows RegScanner utility display the entire search result at once, so you don't have to press F3 in order to find the next value. RegScanner can find a unicode string located inside a binary value.

RegScanner allows you to make a case sensitive search. While scanning the Registry, RegScanner display the current scanned Registry key, as opposed to RegEdit, that simply display a boring "Searching the registry" dialog-box.

A separated download for x64 systems is also available. Versions History Version 2. Fixed bug: RegScanner failed to export to. Version 2. You can choose to search only Registry key with specific owners, or to exclude specific owners from the search. Fixed RegScanner to use the. This feature can be useful if your system freezes when your network is disconnected and you want to find references to remote computers in the Registry in order to try to fix the problem.

By default When you don't choose the bit or bit option - the bit version of RegScanner scans the bit Registry and the bit version of RegScanner scans the bit Registry. This problem was caused by a bug in Registry API of Windows, and a workaround was added to RegScanner so the Registry scan will work properly with this bug. MajorGeeks Windows Tweaks.

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In normal mode, uninstaller will revert the changes for you. In that case, Registry Finder is fully functional except that the undo history and application settings are not saved so called No-Save mode.

On startup, appropriate message is shown and the status bar contains a yellow triangle sign. The pop-up message can be suppressed by manually editing the RegistryFinder. Registry Finder is able to treat set of registry hive files as a separate standalone registry.

This feature saves you from tedious procedure of loading and unloading hive files separately. It allows you to, say, easily examine a backup of the registry or modify registry of unbootable Windows when running Registry Finder from bootable USB drive. The usage is simple: you specify a folder with registry hive files. Registry Finder loads particular files from that folder as hives and gives you familiar interface to work with much as it were live registry: you can browse, create keys and values, import, export, search and so on.

Viewing and editing the keys security information is not implemented. Note 2. There are additional parameters displayed with --help but they are left undocumented since they are experimental and may not work as expected. Registry Finder supports searching so called hidden registry keys. These are the keys with the null character in the name. Such keys cannot be created, deleted, modified or viewed by standard Windows API, so they are not accessible by regedit and most other registry editors.

To quickly evaluate this feature, you can use the "Search only hidden keys" checkbox in the Find dialog. The downloaded archive contains the NReg utility that you can use to create and delete hidden keys for demonstration purposes. Type NReg -h to see the usage information. Start Registry Finder. If you want to run Registry Finder without the translation, rename the language ini and dll files, or move it to another folder.

Here you can find some clarifications to certain lines in the language file. If you translate Registry Finder into you language, please send me the language ini file and I will share it with other people. To install a custom icon set, just download an archive and unpack it to the "res" folder located in.

For details on how to create custom toolbar icons, see here. When Registry Finder encounters an unexpected error it generates crash report and asks you to send it to the developer.

This report contains information essential to investigate and fix the problem. So please prefer pressing the Send report button. If you encounter crash multiple times, do not hesitate to send report two or three times - it is possible, the latter contain slightly different information not available in the former.

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