Registry Commander 1.04.3054

An enhanced registry editor, which can do a lot of neat stuff that the Windows Regedit cant.
Features:
- - Registry Commander uses some standard shortcuts defined from back in the DOS days in applications such as Norton Commander.
- - A column always displays the size of a values data.
- - Supports all 12 data types in the registry, defined in the "winnt.h" header file. Most other registry editors only handles Strings, Binary, DWord & Expanded Strings sometimes even MultiString, thats only 5.
- - Copy or Rename/Move entire keys and values from one key to another.
- - A history list has been added to quickly jump from current key to a previously key.
- - Cut or Copy keys and values from one key and paste them into another, using the clipboard.
- - Able to change a values data type. E.g. you can change a string into a binary value without changing the contents of the data.
- - Ability to interpret one value for another, without modifying the data. This would allow you to view a string saved as a binary value.
- - Search part of or the entire registry database, not only can you search by a keyword, but you can also search by size or data type.
- - Registry Commander allows you to bookmark keys or values so you can access them more quickly.
Enhancements:
- - You can now control the format of the value data shown in the listview. The tab "Type Format" in the configuration dialog, contains an edit field for each data type, by editing these, you control the output.
- - Pressing Ctrl+R in the "Key Tree" dialog will refresh the tree, and allow new keys to be displayed.
- - Added a notify sound, which is played after some functions, e.g. after a search has completed. You can choose what wave file to be played, in the configuration dialog.
- - Fixed a very nasty bug that caused stack overflow in the search function. This could occur if RegQueryInfoKey() returned a pcbMaxSubKeyLen of zero, even if it was not. Am I looking at a bug in the Windows Registry API here? What I do, is to allocate a buffer with the size pcbMaxSubKeyLen+1, with the pcbMaxSubKeyLen of zero that leaves our buffer with a size of 1, not enough to store a key name, therefore all subkeys within this key would be reported as an empty string, and the search routine would go into an endless loop. If anyone could elaborate on this, Id be very happy to listen.
- - New option added in the configuration dialog, called "Re-read key when the program is focused". By enabling this option, the current key is automatically reread when it receives focus from another program, for instance tabbing between programs.
- - When you type in a registry path, you *must* use backslashes to divide the keys, in previous versions it was acceptable to use forward slashes as well. This was changed, because it was impossible to open a key, which had a forward slash in its name.
- - Fixed an error in the "Export Key" function, that in certain cases would save binary values, in a format that RegEdit wouldnt recognize and couldnt import.
- - Changed the names of the bookmarks. "Bookmarks -> User Bookmarks", "Search Result -> Search Bookmarks" and "Copied Items -> Cut/Copy Bookmarks". This has been done to make it clearer, that they are only bookmarks, not real registry entries.
- - The new functions "Find AutoRun Values" will list all values in HKEY_CURENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE under Run/RunOnce/RunServices/RunServiceOnce in the key SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion in the Search Bookmarks.
- - The "Key Tree" has been moved to the new "Tools" menu item.
- - The added "Rebuild File Associations" function is very neat, if you manually have changed a file association or default icon under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. It will tell Windows to rebuild its associations, so the correct icons will show.
- - I changed the way in which "Key Tree" scans the registry keys, this has made it a lot faster than in previous versions.
- - Rewrote the routine that deletes keys recursive, this fixes a problem, which only occurred on Win2k/XP. The reason is that you are not allowed to delete a registry key, on NT based systems, if it contains values. Previous versions had some problems doing this correct, because it didnt get all the values removed prior to the deletion of the keys.
- - Increased the data import blocksize to 32kb, compared to the previous versions, which only allowed 16kb. This was done, because someone notified me about a Microsoft support article, which required you to import a file into the registry, which was larger than 16kb. This was somewhat funny, since I read in the Microsoft SDK that data above 16kb should be stored in a file, and not in the registry, bah never trust Microsoft.
- - Showing the root list by pressing F12, wouldnt always draw the items from the top of the listview.
- - If you run a Windows NT based system, the write time of a key has been added to the key information.
- - Moved the "Value Data" column to be the right most column. It fits better this way I think.
- - Cut, Copy and Paste now works when you edit the name of a key or value.
- - Added the support for QWord; REG_QWORD is defined as 11. Its icon is light blue