giladreich/registryeditor

Windows Registry Editor (regedit) with advanced search features.

registryeditor's Issues

Request feature to find within a specific folder

It would be nice if the search window had a feature to restrict search to a specific folder path in the registry

It can have a check box titled "Restrict search to" and a text box to enter the path.

The text box can automatically take the path from the browser when we launch the search window

ⓘ Notice: Predefined Registry Hives

Notice Issue

I've noticed that this like any other resource on the internet predefines Registry Hives.
It's not good or bad thing, I'm simply researching if Windows is keeping track of the Hive names
and if it is possible to list registry Hives without Predefining.
I'd like to see the original RegistryEditor's Source code, but I believe even there the Predefined Registry Hives are existing.

RegistryEditor/src/Windows.RegistryEditor/Utils/RegistryUtils.cs

Lines 10 to 20 in 5ae7cc2

	public const string HKCR = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT";
	public const string HKCU = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER";
	public const string HKLM = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE";
	public const string HKU = "HKEY_USERS";
	public const string HKCC = "HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG";
	public const string SHKCR = "HKCR";
	public const string SHKCU = "HKCU";
	public const string SHKLM = "HKLM";
	public const string SHKU = "HKU";
	public const string SHKCC = "HKCC";

Update:

In the Leaked Windows XP (NT5), the original regedit seems to predefine Registry Hives as well.
A comment to look for in the leaked Windows XP source code
// Association between the ASCII name and the handle of the registry key.
To be found in a file regedit/regport.c such as XPSP1/NT/base/fs/utils/regedit/regporte.c and other files in the source code of Windows XP NT5

Update2: This issue is just a notice of a deeper issue with the Windows Operating system itself.

Since the issue seems to be permanent among Windows Operating systems,
I think this issue should be kept open as a notice since it is not resolved and might not be.