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From: Johnw on 8 Apr 2010 18:06 John Corliss used his keyboard to write : > I'm want to be able to see hidden (and if necessary, delete) entries in the > Registry. These entries can be: > > 1. anything over 256 characters in length > 2. anything with a "/0" (a "null" character) in its name. > John, you have mentioned in a previous post that you have used RegSeeker for cleaning the registry, but have you used > Find in registry ( the 1st entry on the page ) Tick all the keys boxes, I just put "/0" into it & found one entry. Armadillo search took less than 2 minutes.
From: John Corliss on 8 Apr 2010 18:22 za kAT wrote: > John Corliss wrote: > > <snip> > I just tried with regscanner > > http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html > > You can set byte size. I set 256 to 65535, and find any item. > 10,000 finds later... Default max which can be changed. > Really quick actually. > Seems on Vista anyhow> 256 bytes is quite common. > Good luck looking through that lot :) I got 802 items with the lower limit set to 1000. Well, I installed XP on this machine back on Dec. 16, 2005. Probably time to format and reinstall everything (leaving out stuff that I don't use that often anymore.) THAT will clean up the registry. -- John Corliss BS206. I block all Google Groups posts due to Googlespam, and as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules.
From: John Corliss on 8 Apr 2010 18:31 VanguardLH wrote: > charles wrote: > >> On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:18:28 -0700, John Corliss<q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm want to be able to see hidden (and if necessary, delete) entries in >>> the Registry. These entries can be: >>> >>> 1. anything over 256 characters in length >>> 2. anything with a "/0" (a "null" character) in its name. >>> >> >> 1 - Nirsoft's regscanner.exe has an option to display data with a length >> range in bytes. >> >> 2 - Sysinternal's RegDelNull.exe program deletes registry keys per your >> above spec. >> >> That should do it without a lot of complication. > > I already had Nirsoft RegScanner installed but never bothered to use the > size range. I did a test where I specified a range of 250 to 999999999 > bytes (I didn't know what else to specify for an undefinded upper range so I > used a value that far exceeded the total size of my registry). It found > 3112 items in that size range. Corliss claimed that regedit.exe would not > display such overly long items (these are registry keys with data items > whose value are usually binary and very long). I was only quoting what I saw on the internet. For example: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/pavely/archive/2008/07/02/malware-and-hidden-registry-keys.aspx And what I saw said that Regedit and Regedit32 use the Win31 API to view the Registry and suffer from that limitation. Programs which use the Native API don't suffer from that problem. -- John Corliss BS206. I block all Google Groups posts due to Googlespam, and as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules.
From: Johnw on 8 Apr 2010 18:33 John Corliss pretended : > Well, I installed XP on this machine back on Dec. 16, 2005. Probably time to > format and reinstall everything (leaving out stuff that I don't use that > often anymore.) THAT will clean up the registry. If you are going to format, try VIT which I had mentioned in your previous post & you can see what you have left. Vit Registry Fix Free Edition http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Vit-Registry-Fix.shtml http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Vit-Registry-Fix-Screenshot-119237.html http://www.vitsoft.org.ua/vit-registry-fix-free.htm XP / Vista / XP X64 / Vista64 / 7 Screenshots on how to use. http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=jytnqmmdzdo&thumb=4 http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=wldlfvjzzn4&thumb=4 http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=tjnjkmzuc2n&thumb=4 http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=zvj5zreyjn0&thumb=4 http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=zjrdkczkrij&thumb=4 http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=5wzymo50zdo&thumb=4
From: John Corliss on 8 Apr 2010 18:36
charles wrote: > John Corlisswrote: >> >> I'm want to be able to see hidden (and if necessary, delete) entries in >> the Registry. These entries can be: >> >> 1. anything over 256 characters in length >> 2. anything with a "/0" (a "null" character) in its name. > > 1 - Nirsoft's regscanner.exe has an option to display data with a length > range in bytes. Yep, I already have that one on my hard drive, but it's an older version (1.77). I just downloaded the newest version and will give it a try. I had no idea that it uses the Native API. It does, doesn't it? > 2 - Sysinternal's RegDelNull.exe program deletes registry keys per your > above spec. > > That should do it without a lot of complication. VanguardLH pointed it out to me the other day I believe. I'll take a look at it again. IIRC, it's a command line utility and they warn that deleting Registry entries, even ones with nulls in them, can screw up programs. Thanks for your reply, Charles. -- John Corliss BS206. I block all Google Groups posts due to Googlespam, and as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules. |