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From: John Corliss on 4 Apr 2010 08:57 Johnw wrote: > John Corliss presented the following explanation : > >> Well, I'd just like to find freeware that would go through the >> registry and list all entries that are over 256 characters in length. >> > Can't help on that one. >> >> As for being protected from myself, I'm a big boy and am willing to >> take chances. If I screw up, there's always format &reinstall, as well >> as backed up data. That remark was in response to VanguardLH's statement about regedit.exe deliberately not showing some entries. > Did you try Vit Registry Fix Free Edition as per my earlier post & > compare your before & after registry sizes? Sorry John, I don't see that post of yours in this thread for some reason. You must mean this: http://www.vitsoft.org.ua/Eng/vit-registry-fix-free.htm I'm already using RegCleaner and RegSeeker. What I'd like to be able to do isn't to do more cleaning, but to be able to locate and display any entries that are longer than 256 characters in length. -- 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: za kAT on 4 Apr 2010 10:19 On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:57:24 -0700, John Corliss wrote: > What I'd like to be able to > do isn't to do more cleaning, but to be able to locate and display any > entries that are longer than 256 characters in length. Perhaps you could have a chat with this developer. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RegistryDumper.aspx If you could adjust the code to forget the keys and just show values then you just need to search for line lengths > 256, or something like that. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: John Corliss on 4 Apr 2010 10:51 za kAT wrote: > John Corliss wrote: >> >> What I'd like to be able to do isn't to do more cleaning, but to be >> able to locate and display any entries that are longer than 256 >> characters in length. > > Perhaps you could have a chat with this developer. > > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RegistryDumper.aspx > > If you could adjust the code to forget the keys and just show values then > you just need to search for line lengths> 256, or something like that. Since I already have an account with the site so I was able to download the program. It might be good enough for my purposes if I use the output in conjunction with something else (not sure what yet at this point though.) Many thanks. -- 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 4 Apr 2010 11:16 John Corliss wrote: > za kAT wrote: >> John Corliss wrote: >>> >>> What I'd like to be able to do isn't to do more cleaning, but to be >>> able to locate and display any entries that are longer than 256 >>> characters in length. >> >> Perhaps you could have a chat with this developer. >> >> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RegistryDumper.aspx >> >> If you could adjust the code to forget the keys and just show values then >> you just need to search for line lengths> 256, or something like that. > > Since I already have an account with the site so I was able to download > the program. It might be good enough for my purposes if I use the output > in conjunction with something else (not sure what yet at this point > though.) Should have added: to narrow down the results. The readme that comes with the program says: "RegDump takes one parameter and that is path to registry hive for example c:\WINDOWS\repair\system. and hives are copied here everytime we create system backup diskete in xp. Or you can take those from system restore point dir" In my case, since I don't use Windows Backup, I will have to get the registry files from the System Restore point folder in the protected "System Volume Information" folder. I can get inside that folder by using some info I found in this group a while back- Create a new shortcut, name is something appropriate. Give it the following command line: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cacls.exe "c:\System Volume Information" /E /G "(user name)":F To restore the protected status of the folder after I'm done dumping the Registry (or at least a recent copy of it as in this case)- Create a new shortcut, name is something appropriate. Give it the following command line: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cacls.exe "c:\System Volume Information" /E /R "(user name)" In both cases, where "(user name)" is your Windows user name. Also, this assumes standard folder locations in XP. Not sure how this would be done in newer versions of Windows. -- 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: za kAT on 4 Apr 2010 11:28
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:16:03 -0700, John Corliss wrote: > John Corliss wrote: >> za kAT wrote: >>> John Corliss wrote: >>>> >>>> What I'd like to be able to do isn't to do more cleaning, but to be >>>> able to locate and display any entries that are longer than 256 >>>> characters in length. >>> >>> Perhaps you could have a chat with this developer. >>> >>> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RegistryDumper.aspx >>> >>> If you could adjust the code to forget the keys and just show values then >>> you just need to search for line lengths> 256, or something like that. >> >> Since I already have an account with the site so I was able to download >> the program. It might be good enough for my purposes if I use the output >> in conjunction with something else (not sure what yet at this point >> though.) > > Should have added: to narrow down the results. > > The readme that comes with the program says: > > "RegDump takes one parameter and that is path to registry hive > for example c:\WINDOWS\repair\system. and hives are copied here > everytime we create system backup diskete in xp. Or you can take those > from system restore point dir" > > In my case, since I don't use Windows Backup, I will have to get the > registry files from the System Restore point folder in the protected > "System Volume Information" folder. I can get inside that folder by > using some info I found in this group a while back- > > Create a new shortcut, name is something appropriate. Give it the > following command line: > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\cacls.exe "c:\System Volume Information" /E /G > "(user name)":F > > To restore the protected status of the folder after I'm done dumping the > Registry (or at least a recent copy of it as in this case)- > > Create a new shortcut, name is something appropriate. Give it the > following command line: > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\cacls.exe "c:\System Volume Information" /E /R > "(user name)" > > In both cases, where "(user name)" is your Windows user name. Also, this > assumes standard folder locations in XP. Not sure how this would be done > in newer versions of Windows. I was gonna say, if it dumps really large text files maybe something like http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep/index.php will help I vaguely remember it accepts large line lengths as well as Searching files of any size (> 2GB) as is tolerant of binary characters. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com |