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Doug
I know there are many including the built in but which editor do you
like to use to edit your win 7 registry ?
like to use to edit your win 7 registry ?
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none
REGEDIT.EXE (in windows directory)Doug said:
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Ed Cryer
Regedit; provided in Win7.
Ed
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Bob I
Regedit, haven't seen any reason to bother using any of the "many others".
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy
I don't like to use anything to edit my registry, but when I must, theDoug said:
no frills regedit that has been included in Windows since the dawn of
time is sufficient.
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Jeff Layman
I use regedit.
The only thing which might make me change would be an editor which gave
me the option of saving a key as soon as I selected it, before I edited
it, and if I chose to save it would do so as a *.reg file. If anything
nasty happened I could double click on that and get the original key
back (assuming the computer would boot!).
Maybe one already exists...
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Char Jackson
Regedit has that capability. It just isn't automated like you
describe. I always recommend saving a key before modifying it, even
though I don't always follow my advice myself.
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy
Regedit has that ability. Just right click on the key and selectJeff said:
"Export." The key and all subkeys and values will be saved as reg file:
"keyname.reg." Double clicking the .reg file will restore any deleted or
changed items. However, it will not remove any new keys or values.
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Ken Blake
I think the built-in Regedit is fine, and that's what I use.
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy
If you want it to remove any additions as well as restore original data,Dave said:
the key can be deleted before the original material is restored by
adding a key delete instruction to the reg file.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\textfile]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\textfile]
@="Text Document"
(original subkeys and values)
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Gene E. Bloch
Which *is* the built-in registry editor.
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Gene E. Bloch
And I now extend this remark to every other poster in this thread
Not counting my next post...
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Gene E. Bloch
I use Registry Workshop. It's not free, but I've had it a while and so I
don't remember the price.
http://www.torchsoft.com
There are several reasons I like it.
Its searches are many times faster than regedit's. Hugely faster.
It shows all of the results of the search *at once* in a search pane; in
fact it has two search panes, so you can easily switch between two sets
of results.
It has a selective undo function: it keeps a bunch of old changes, and
you can undo any one of them at will.
It's easy to save a chunk of the registry as a .reg file.
....And I probably don't even know some of its other advantages.
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Stubbo of Oz
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vortch
I use the regedit favorites to remind me what I've changed, and to
get quickly to places like
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
This is the only other app I've found useful, as the default search
function is SO SLOW.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
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Doug
Rather than try to thank each reply individual, just want to say
thanks to ALL who replied here. I think as a whole, you answered my
question.... thanks.
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WaIIy
Registry crawler to find the key - faster than regedit.
Click on the key and regedit opens to the key.
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WaIIy
registry crawler
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croy
RegistrarLite. Will do search and replace, much like MS
Word.