Registry editors

StimpE

StimpE

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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?
 
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 :P
 
Well, it was worth a shot ;)
StimpE said:
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 :P
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StimpE said:
.... enter a key to search and it will find anything containing that term ....
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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.
 
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.
 
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