gHacks technology news » registry editor http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Regalyzer Advanced Registry Editor http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/07/regalyzer-advanced-registry-editor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/07/regalyzer-advanced-registry-editor/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:04:37 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3742 One could say that Regalyzer starts there where the default Windows Registry editor and Regscanner stop. Don’t get me wrong, Regscanner is a great program but it has one great weakness and that is the fact that you cannot edit the Registry in the software directly but have to rely on Regedit to edit the entries that you have found with Regscanner. Regalyzer on the other hand provides the advanced search capabilities of Regscanner with the option to edit Registry keys directly.

The main window of Regalyzer resembles that of Regedit but you will notice the bar at the top that contains the search and a history function that displays the Registry keys that have been used lately. It also offers a way of pasting a Registry key into it to jump directly to that key, very handy if you quickly want to change a setting and have the full key at hand.

The search is independent from the main program and opens up in a new window. It displays the result just like Regscanner does which means that all search results are displayed immediately and you are not forced to jump from result to result like in Regedit. Four Search Styles are available: Simple Search, Wildcard Search, Boolean Search and Regular Expressions.

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You can also limit the search to specific range, certain data types and several other options. There is also a find and replace feature build in. Once you have selected a key you will notice the additional tabs that contain Security Information, Additional Information and a Change Log besides the default display of the values of that key.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/07/regalyzer-advanced-registry-editor/feed/ 1 Regscanner advanced Registry search http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/30/regscanner-advanced-registry-search/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/30/regscanner-advanced-registry-search/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:16:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3662 It’s kinda funny. I was prepared to write about Regscanner all day long when I discovered that Kevin over at Lifehacker did post about the Nirsoft utility as well. If you have ever used the Windows Registry Editor before you might have asked yourself why Microsoft did not implement a better search in the tool, they surely should have had enough time to do so in the past years. If you perform a search in Regedit you jump from one entry to the next like the search in text applications. A far better solution for Regedit however would be to display all search results at once which would give the user more control.

Regscanner is the usual high quality Nirsoft application. You can run it from any location without installation it and it works right out of the box. The Regscanner search form might look a bit intimidating but it is actually providing some much needed functions. It offers all the search functionality of Regedit plus the following advanced options:

  • Case Sensitive Search
  • Searching for Unicode String in Binary Value
  • Exact Matches plus five additional criterias for matching strings.
  • Display keys that have been modified in a time range
  • Display data of a certain size (in bytes)
  • Display only values of a certain type (like DWORD)
  • Scan one, several or all Registry base keys

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A double-click on an entry opens the selected key in Regedit. Results can be exported as .reg files which can be imported into Regedit.

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