[windows2000] Re: Registry editor with search/replace functions?

  • From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:04:39 -0500

now if you had notepad with tabs, then it would be really easy

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ray Costanzo <> scribbled on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:57 PM:
>
> Sounds a bit awkward, but I guess it's doable, even the part where using
> the
> tabless Notepad comes in. In any case, if I'm looking for a specific word
> or
> expression I want to change in the whole registry (as is the case), I'd
> need to
> dump the whole thing. I'm not that sure the tabless Notepad can handle
> loading
> such an amount of data without crashing. Vim could probably do it though,
> as
> it's not restrained by riched32.dll (or whatever that file is called that
> sinks
> most 3rd party editors) as most other windows editors are.
>
> [Am I right in assuming you needing to taunt me a bit about Notepad again?
> It
> really seems to get your goat going as it were... ;-)]
>
>
> > I don't know of any, which means that I shouldn't reply, but you could
> > always export the branch you'd like to find and replace into a text
> > editor, such as tabless Notepad, do your find/replace, and re-import.
> >
> > Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Would anybody out there know of a registry editor with a search/replace
> >> function?
>

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