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Utility provides missing mass search function in Windows Registry Editor |
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Written by Hans Straat source:http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com,
Tuesday, 08 August 2006
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Different applications augment or supplant Windows' Registry Editor application, which is simple and useful. . .but often simple to a fault. One downside to RegEdit is that it has no mass search function; you can't find and display all instances of a given string in the Registry and see them at a glance. If you're looking for a given string, you have to iterate through each instance of it in the Registry manually, which is, at best, a major pain. Not only does the utility RegScanner, which comes to us courtesy of Nir Sofer, do that very job, it also expands on it in several ways. For instance, it lets you search for any value in the Registry and display all the available instances of it in a single view, jump directly to the key in question for fast editing, and export the found results to a .REG file that can be loaded into another computer. Like other NirSoft tools, RegScanner doesn't need to be installed; you can unpack the .ZIP file it comes in to any directory and run it from there. When you launch it, you have the option to choose which base key (for instance, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) to start the search from. A dropdown provides many common base keys, but you can type one in if you wish. The search string can be case-sensitive or –insensitive, and the match can be exact or within certain parameters—for instance, you can match against the data and the values, but not the key names themselves. read more
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