Registry Editor

[No I'm Spartacus]

Hi all,

I use Registry Commander as my registry editor, and I'm looking for an
alternative. Registry Commander 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
(Windows regedit doesn't have the same speed problems).

Anyway, I've tried the following, and am not interested in them as
replacements:
-RegEditX (now shareware, old freeware version is feature limited)
-RegMagik (not freeware)
-RegCool (time expired freeware, current version expires 28 Oct 2006,
not interested)
-Registrar Lite (from Resplendence -
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite - I think this may have used to be
called something else, but it's a limited version of a shareware
product, so not interested)

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. An alternative would be if anyone knows a fix
for the speed problems in Registry Commander.

 

[Ron May]

Hi all,

I use Registry Commander as my registry editor, and I'm looking for an
alternative. Registry Commander 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
(Windows regedit doesn't have the same speed problems).

Anyway, I've tried the following, and am not interested in them as
replacements:
-RegEditX (now shareware, old freeware version is feature limited)
-RegMagik (not freeware)
-RegCool (time expired freeware, current version expires 28 Oct 2006,
not interested)
-Registrar Lite (from Resplendence -
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite - I think this may have used to be
called something else, but it's a limited version of a shareware
product, so not interested)

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. An alternative would be if anyone knows a fix
for the speed problems in Registry Commander.

What I've been using for years is Registry Explorer

http://www.regxplor.com/

Integrates with Windows Explorer in the Folders window, so navigating
to a registry entry is like drilling down through directory
subfolders. It also has a right click "Find" option, but I like
RegSeeker better for those types of operations.

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Oly downside to Registry Explorer is that it puts an icon on your
desktop. Not a good thing for a registry editor! Fixed that problem
by changing the shortcut to hidden.