regist: registry subtree deletion tool

[aoeu4]

I have not noticed any small free utilities to delete win32 registry
subkeys recursively, so I have created one.

It was written to help clean blaster. It is less than 30k in
size, and should not require any external libraries. Ideal for
scripts.

You can find it here: http://reenen.co.za/regist/

Please note that this program worked for me, on a Windows 2000
Professional installation. There is however no guarantees. Use this at
your own risk. See the README file for more details.

 

[Jack]

I had a problem recently which caused me to create a .vbs
script to do just this. Unfortunately, while the script
worked fine, it caused problems within W2K and caused user
profiles not to be saved.

I am not suggesting that this utility might have the same
problem but I came up with an even simpler solution which
folk might like to know about. I created a .reg file as
follows:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Test]

Run at the command line via regedit, it happily deletes
the "Test" key and any subkeys or values. Recursion is not
an issue with regedit under these circumstances.
regards,

Jack.