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Online Manual of Registry Workshop 2.5
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Find in the registry

  1. If you want to search in a specified registry key, click the key where you want to search.
  2. On the Search menu, click Find.
  3. In Find what, type what you want to find.
  4. Select the Search keys, Search values, Search data, and Match Case, Match whole string, Use wildcard search, Use binary search check boxes to match the type of search you want.
  5. Select the Search the entire registry or Search in key radio button as you wish.
  6. Click Find.
  7. The find status dialog appears, you can click Cancel to stop searching.

How to search using wildcards?

You can use '*' and '?' as wildcard when searching registry. The '*' represent zero or more characters and the '?' represent any single character. For example, to search for all strings begin with "abc", type "abc*".

Notes

  • Duplicated matches will be removed from the Find Results automatically.
  • Binary search should be only used to search non-text information in registry.
  • You can search for partial of registry key path. For example, the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftCommand Processor" will be found when searching for "MicrosoftCommand". But the replace function does not work on the found keys.
  • You can right click in the find results window to show a context menu and using this menu to manage the find results.

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