Suggestion for Registry search & editing tool

[videobruce]

I currently use a older program called Registry Crawler with Windows RegEdit32 to first search for all entries of a file name and then delete what I don't want (namely left over entries from un-installed programs & drivers).

I'm looking for a one solution program that will let me;
1. Do a search and show ALL entires, not one at a time like RegEdit does,
2. Allow deletion of 'ENUM' entires without obtaining permission every time like RegEdit32 puts you through.

Suggestions?

[shadowpr]

Have you looked at www.ccleaner.com ?

It won't let you do a specific search, but it does a good job of finding everything that's left in the regisrty.

Highly recommened here, and totally free.

[videobruce]

I'm not looking for one of those 'cleaners'. I took a look over at MajorGeeks and 90%+ of the Registry programs appear to be just that, or defrag programs.

[TwoRails]

I found this one, of many, Googling "registry editor"

http://www.torchsoft.com/en/rw_information.html

I've never used it, so it's not a recommendation...

[videobruce]

shadowpr; I actually have CCleaner installed, but I haven't really used it. It seems to be more of another one of those 'auromatic cleaners which is waht I wasn't looking for.

TwoRails; Without getting really OT, I read some of their FAQ's and it brought up a tidbit I didn't know regarding the five 'root keys'. Only two store the data, the other three are just links;
http://www.torchsoft.com/en/rw_faq.html

Explain?

[TwoRails]

You may find an answer here, or in one of it's links. I don't know off the top of my head why Microsoft designed it the way they did...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_registry

[videobruce]

I don't know off the top of my head why Microsoft designed it the way they did.

Does anyone know why M$ does it the way they do??

[pam123]

The only program I know that does what you want is regcleaner : http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-dow...cleaner4.3.htm

It organizes by categories but otherwise you have to go through and delete everything by hand.
It's a great learning tool and the control is absolute.
It also has a restore file so if you delete something you shouldn't have you at least have a shot at getting it back.

[amdalex]

I like Regseeker, http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm which is also a good registry cleaner also.

[videobruce]

pam123; Someone else suggested this. I will take a look.
amdalex; That was suggested also, but it looks too much as another 'auto cleaner' tool.