Registry editors

Anyone know of a windows xp registry editor where you can enter a key to search and it will find anything containing that term in the registry and delete it?

 

No, but you could take a look here:

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwregtools_r.html

I've heard messing around with the registry can be pretty dangerous for your system though. Then again, if I used them myself, I wouldn't know what I was doing

 

Messing around with your registry CAN be dangerous if you don't know what your doing. From what I was reading, none of those programs will do what I want but thanks for trying

 

Well, it was worth a shot

 

I know it sound completely obvious but have you tried the 'Find' utlity in 'regedit'?

 

Yes, but I want it to delete all the keys it finds. not just show me them one by one.

 

Delete them as you go

 

Sorry but I don't want to manually delete hundreds of lame registry entries.

 

I used to try and find registry keys left by shareware programs so I could use them after the trial period finished. I hardly met success though.

 

Incase you're wondering why I need this, I'm trying to manually remove a program that failed through the add/remove programs by finding the keys it entered (theres LOTS, its a symantec product) and removing them.

 

I am not sure if you tried it but I remember, ages ago, using 'Registry First-Aid'.
It was quite good at finding. Then you could just tick all the boxes and delete the lot.

Unfortunately it is not free.....

I found it quite good.

 

Thanks, this will make jobs easier in the future