Registry Editor Alternatives

[No I'm Spartacus]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an alternative to Registry Commander. It works fine,
but the major downside that I can't live with is that when opening
large sets of keys (prime example would be hkey_classes_root), it
takes a long long time to display. Then if you go into one of the
sub-keys, and then back out to the root hkey_classes, it has to
re-display all the keys again (I know this is only in Registry
Commander - Windows regedit doesn't have the same speed problems).
Also, another annoying behaviour is that during this time, if I swap
to another open application to continue work while Registry Commander
displays all the entries, it will force window focus back to itself
after a few seconds. If I then change back to say my web browser,
after another few seconds, Registry Commander will make itself the
active window again. You can swap over to whatever program window you
want, at whatever interval, but Registry Commander will always force
focus back on itself.

Anyway, I've tried the following, and am not interested in them as
replacements:
-RegEditX
-RegMagik
-Registrar Lite (from Resplendence -
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite - I think this may have used to be
called something else)

Any other alternatives? I did a google groups search and found a few
old acf threads on registry editors, but found nothing apart from the
one's I've mentioned. Please keep the thread about registry editor's -
one of the old acf threads I found turned into a 57 reply thread on
the state of American society - there were only a couple of on-topic
posts to the original OP about registry editors.

 

[omega]

Anyway, I've tried the following, and am not interested in them as
replacements:

-RegEditX
-RegMagik
-Registrar Lite (from Resplendence -

Any other alternatives?

PepiMk's (SpyBot) RegAlyz
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/regalyzer/index.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/files/regalyz.exe

Kurt Zimmermann's RegCool
http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/regcool_e.htm
http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/files/RegCool.exe

Vilma Software Registry Explorer
http://www.vsft.com/regexp/
http://www.vsft.com/archive/regexp.exe

Registry Editor Plus (RegEdit+)
Author: Neil J. Rubenking
Owner: PCMag ...
(Not freely distributable, but I'm listing it in case its in one's archives
from back when PCMag used to give their software for free.)

Registry Editor Gold (RegEditGold)
Author: Shane Whitehead
Homepage: ?

Freeware registry editors, that is a pretty finite category. If any new ones
have come out in the past couple years (I'd stopped seriously search, happy
as I am with RegMagik) -- then hopefully others will add in that news.

 

[omega]

Registry Editor Gold (RegEditGold)

Author: Shane Whitehead
Homepage: ?

Google gives me this:
http://www.zdnetindia.com/downloads/info/8071973.html

Ref'd links form there 404, but web.archive.org comes through. Might be the
best alternative if the author has vanished and not relocated elsewhere.

old homepage
http://web.archive.org/web/20021010184137/http://homepages.tesco.net/~pat.whitehead/

download
http://web.archive.org/web/20021010204359/homepages.tesco.net/~pat.whitehead/RegEditGold.msi

sourcecode (vb)
http://web.archive.org/web/20021010...es.tesco.net/~pat.whitehead/REGSourceCode.zip

 

[bassbag]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an alternative to Registry Commander. It works fine,
but the major downside that I can't live with is that when opening
large sets of keys (prime example would be hkey_classes_root), it
takes a long long time to display. Then if you go into one of the
sub-keys, and then back out to the root hkey_classes, it has to
re-display all the keys again (I know this is only in Registry
Commander - Windows regedit doesn't have the same speed problems).
Also, another annoying behaviour is that during this time, if I swap
to another open application to continue work while Registry Commander
displays all the entries, it will force window focus back to itself
after a few seconds. If I then change back to say my web browser,
after another few seconds, Registry Commander will make itself the
active window again. You can swap over to whatever program window you
want, at whatever interval, but Registry Commander will always force
focus back on itself.

Anyway, I've tried the following, and am not interested in them as
replacements:
-RegEditX
-RegMagik
-Registrar Lite (from Resplendence -
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite - I think this may have used to be
called something else)

Any other alternatives? I did a google groups search and found a few
old acf threads on registry editors, but found nothing apart from the
one's I've mentioned. Please keep the thread about registry editor's -
one of the old acf threads I found turned into a 57 reply thread on
the state of American society - there were only a couple of on-topic
posts to the original OP about registry editors.
--

Regards,

Spartacus

Registry explorer?
http://www.vsft.com/regexp/using.htm
me

 

[bassbag]

PepiMk's (SpyBot) RegAlyz
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/regalyzer/index.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/files/regalyz.exe

Kurt Zimmermann's RegCool
http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/regcool_e.htm
http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/files/RegCool.exe

Vilma Software Registry Explorer
http://www.vsft.com/regexp/
http://www.vsft.com/archive/regexp.exe

Registry Editor Plus (RegEdit+)
Author: Neil J. Rubenking
Owner: PCMag ...
(Not freely distributable, but I'm listing it in case its in one's archives
from back when PCMag used to give their software for free.)

Registry Editor Gold (RegEditGold)
Author: Shane Whitehead
Homepage: ?

Freeware registry editors, that is a pretty finite category. If any new ones
have come out in the past couple years (I'd stopped seriously search, happy
as I am with RegMagik) -- then hopefully others will add in that news.

Apologies.I see you have already mention registry explorer.
me

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an alternative to Registry Commander. It works fine,
but the major downside that I can't live with is that when opening
large sets of keys (prime example would be hkey_classes_root), it
takes a long long time to display. Then if you go into one of the
sub-keys, and then back out to the root hkey_classes, it has to
re-display all the keys again (I know this is only in Registry
Commander - Windows regedit doesn't have the same speed problems).
Also, another annoying behaviour is that during this time, if I swap
to another open application to continue work while Registry Commander
displays all the entries, it will force window focus back to itself
after a few seconds. If I then change back to say my web browser,
after another few seconds, Registry Commander will make itself the
active window again. You can swap over to whatever program window you
want, at whatever interval, but Registry Commander will always force
focus back on itself.

Anyway, I've tried the following, and am not interested in them as
replacements:
-RegEditX
-RegMagik
-Registrar Lite (from Resplendence -
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite - I think this may have used to be
called something else)

Any other alternatives? I did a google groups search and found a few
old acf threads on registry editors, but found nothing apart from the
one's I've mentioned. Please keep the thread about registry editor's -
one of the old acf threads I found turned into a 57 reply thread on
the state of American society - there were only a couple of on-topic
posts to the original OP about registry editors.

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. RegCool looks like the one I will try to work
with.

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. RegCool looks like the one I will try to work
with.

Hi again,

Just a warning about RegCool - it is a time expired program. Current
version expires in October. Nowhere on the program's website does it
say it, but it says it if you go into the About box of the program
itself. That sucks major dog you-know-what, so I've removed it from my
PC, and will just have to put up with the problems in Registry
Commander.