Best Free Registry Editor
I've used the full version of Resplendent Registry Editor for years and have never had any reason to look for an alternative until recently.
The first product I checked out was Registrar Lite, the free version of Resplendent Registry Editor, and it's an impressive freebie. To start with, it works totally reliably - an essential feature for any registry editor. The user interface is simple, the functionality is excellent, and it has a really fast search. I did miss the "search and delete" option but it leaves Regedit for dead. If you know a better free registry editor, drop me an email.
Finding the Lite version on the Resplendent site is tricky. Go to the download page and locate the heading "Registry Tools." On the right hand side in faint gray letters there is a link called "Download Free Lite Version." You can also get it from various download sites, including, MajorGeeks.
Registrar Lite
Website: http://www.resplendence.com
Download link: http://www.resplendence.com/downloads
Author: Resplendence Sp
Current version: 5.5.6
Version date: December 28, 2007
License: Freeware
Download File size: 2.58MB
Operating Systems Supported: 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Additional Software Required: None
64 Bit Capable: Yes
Portable Version Available: No
Non-English languages supported: NA
Registrar Lite - alternate download link:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download469.html
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I have used this in the past.. Very cool..
http://www.tucows.com/preview/249259
Unfortunately, it looks like the Author's site is down - http://www.aezay.dk/
It can:
* cut, copy and paste
* advanced search
* change value type
* Bookmark keys and values
there's support for types other than just strings, dword and binary values.
Thanks,
Kent
I tried the latest version of Reglite from Resplendence.com and had problems mentioned by others using a Win 2000 sp4 operating system. If Anonymous on 7/22/08 is correct and the Resplendence url links to v5.6.6, then Resplendence still hasn't updated their site description as it says v5.56. When I opened the program there was an access violation alert at a 0x00000 address, and I couldn't search for any registry strings. I'm not sure if the Majorgeeks.com version 5.56 will help, but I'll try it later. What's interesting is that when checking the properties of the two downloaded programs, neither has a version number listed, but only the Majorgeeks.com version has a digital signature.
For some reason Siteadvisor.com gives Resplendence.com a red X rating, although Reglite tests cleanly. Siteadvisor states that Resplendence provides questionable links, though the comments posted are in favor of the site.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/resplendence.com
What I have noticed is that the Resplendence version installed three files into
my system32 directory (thanks to Zsoft's great Uninstaller program for this information):
FILE ADDED! WINNT\system32\rrMon.sys
FILE ADDED! WINNT\system32\rrsec.dll
FILE ADDED! WINNT\system32\rrsec2k.exe
After using the Add/remove programs uninstall, rrmon.sys was still in the system32 subdirectory! The Zsoft Uninstaller deleted it along with other registry strings.
Indeed, your post has puzzled me. The 5.6.6 installer doesn't have a digital signature, but it's drivers, (unpacked or installed) have. Here's rrmon.sys details:
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Campo : Versão
Valor : V2
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Campo : Emissor
Valor : GlobalSign ObjectSign CA, ObjectSign CA, GlobalSign nv-sa, BE
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Campo : Número de série
Valor : ?01 00 00 00 00 01 12 f6 be 1e 50
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Campo : Algoritmo de resumo
Valor : sha1
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Campo : Algoritmo de encriptação do resumo
Valor : RSA
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Campo : Atributos de autenticação
Valor :
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Campo : 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.2.1.12
Valor : 30 00
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Campo : Tipo de conteúdo
Valor : 06 0a 2b 06 01 04 01 82 37 02 01 04
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Campo : Message Digest
Valor : 04 14 5c e9 11 b7 04 73 a0 50 e3 e1 a1 54 cf 92 cc ad 88 b5 c7 14
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Campo : Atributos não autenticados
Valor :
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Campo : Contra-assinatura
Valor : 30 82 01 67 02 01 01 30 67 30 53 31 0b 30 09 06 03 55 04 06 13 02 55 53 31 17 30 15 06 03 55 04 0a 13 0e 56 65 72 69 53 69 67 6e 2c 20 49 6e 63 2e 31 2b 30 29 06 03 55 04 03 13 22 56 65 72 69 53 69 67 6e 20 54 69 6d 65 20 53 74 61 6d 70 69 6e 67 20 53 65 72 76 69 63 65 73 20 43 41 02 10 38 25 d7 fa f8 61 af 9e f4 90 e7 26 b5 d6 5a d5 30 0c 06 08 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 02 05 05 00 a0 59 30 18 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 09 03 31 0b 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 07 01 30 1c 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 09 05 31 0f 17 0d 30 38 30 32 30 39 30 35 34 39 34 36 5a 30 1f 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 09 04 31 12 04 10 5a 68 73 bf 00 f8 89 98 dc 87 ed cd 67 f4 8d 62 30 0d 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 01 01 05 00 04 81 80 7c 4c ef 95 55 96 a9 f6 a8 f3 5f 44 c9 63 c3 83 bb 8a 45 1b 44 56 5f bd 9d c6 86 8d a0 da 94 a0 6e 12 7f 32 2f e3 9c a3 44 dd be d6 40 18 5a 36 b9 26 57 84 40 73 16 76 c5 b5 96 ef 4b c2 a3 0f 71 95 ce 96 64 b2 26 60 94 1b a5 e6 df 10 fb cb 4d f4 fd dd 48 2b df 6d 1f e5 43 ea 53 3d cf c6 85 3a 0d ee 22 52 98 7a f5 ef 80 a7 cd d9 f1 3b b5 6f ca 5b fe 25 7c 74 db 8e 93 04 67 70 44 37
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As for Mcafee info, after my previous post, I checked your url, and the problem seems to be it's online affiliations, not the downloads provided (all 10 with 0 score in the Nuisance Meter).
If it helps, here's the 2 files data (I rename them myself, the download is always rrtri.exe):
File: D:\Documents\rrtri556.exe
Size: 2706192 bytes
MD5: ACCB2848EA151FA18E7A3F30A3D7EBB8
SHA1: 30BC647502F2B9F44F83835C49DC8EAF61E21C27
CRC32: 43BADB2D
File: D:\Programas\rrtri566.exe
Size: 2631824 bytes
MD5: 23CDC60AEFEF632AE0D5366D75E7B458
SHA1: 573B2571B580AA17340ED3A6040D7C58D1FF2A0B
CRC32: 8ED0B612
The Registrar version provided in the download page (v.5.5.6), like the one in the Registrar home page (v.5.5.0) are definetly wrong. As for Win 2K problems, try to contact them. This is a higly recommeded product, but remember the nag screen does nag. And no, there's no malware bundled, constant false positives was the reason I quit Mcafee Siteadvisor.
try ccleaner...
Ccleaner is a registry cleaner, not an editor.
The review is correct - free product and not a trial - and both the download links are working. However, the majorgeeks url gives you the 5.5.6 version, and the resplendence url the 5.6.6. In it's current version it does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT anymore, and I think you should also mention the nag screen. Full feature comparison - Registrar PRO, Registrar Lite and Regedit - here:
http://www.resplendence.com/registrar_compchart.htm
Great tip Gizmo, thanks!
After a brief test, seems to me that for the average user that uses Erunt to backup, this tool is overkill and somewhat bloated in it's current version. The nag screen popups all the time, that's unpleasant, and the undo feature is disabled. My main problem with regedit is the very slow and very basic search feature, so I would suggest another freeware to enhance it, RegScanner from Nirsoft: all you have to do is unpack, run, search and jump to the specific key.
2 examples of usage:
http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/find_registry_large_values.html
http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/find_modified_time_registry_key.html
Description and download link:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
BTW, it's portable and the download only 49KB.
Actually, I was so impressed with Registrar speed, I decided to look for the old 2.0. I have no idea if it's Vista compatible, it as less features, no multi-level undo (in 5.6.6 it's blocked anyway), you can edit permissions at will, and just imagine: no nag screen!
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/System_Maintenance_and_Repa...
http://www.winaddons.com/registrar-lite-20/
http://rbytes.net/software/registrar-lite-review/
And how about Eusing? Has worked quite well for me with XP.
I just installed CCleaner on Gizmo's recommendation. It is boosting performance immediately, even though I have been using Eusing regularly!
Another good freeware Registry Editor I have used on occasion is RegSeeker. You can find info about it here: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
It has a quick search, allows you to search and delete and keeps a backup of all the changes you make in case you need to undo those changes. Well worth a look!
Chris Jones
Registrar Lite is no more available from resplendence. It's a 21 day trail version that they are offering.
........Javed
Registrar Lite 2.0 is one of the greatest freebies of all time - I'd feel totally handicapped if I had to go back to using Regedit. Can you imagine being able to scan the entire Registry in seconds?
I'd tried at least one more recent free version, but it/they had some nag screens. Also, although there may have been some additional features in these later version(s), I felt the simplicity of 2.0 had been somewhat reduced. ymmv.
Where we can download Registrar Lite 2.0?
Thanks.
Resplendence seem to have discontinued providing the free Lite version. However, you can still find it at many other locations for download. I assume though that it does not support Vista like the new full version does.
Regards,
Sundance
Hmmm. Perhaps RegistrarLite works well on XP, but it seems to have some problems on Win2K - and its documentation states that it's supported only on Win2KSP4 and later (i.e., not on 9x or NT).
Installing it provokes a ThreatFire alert that hangs both ThreatFire and the installation (and ThreatFire refused to be killed by Task Manager, so the only thing to do is reboot - though thankfully Win2K will restart without a hard reboot after failing yet again to kill ThreatFire). I had this problem with the newest ThreatFire update on another installation, though, so retried (after uninstalling - which also caused the same Threatfire problem) with ThreatFire suspended: the install completed, but the application generated an access violation when run (it then seemed to come up OK, but I wasn't about to try any registry modifications to see whether all its activities were reliable).
Finally, the file downloaded from resplendence.com differs from that downloaded from MajorGeeks.com: not only does the download size differ, but my impression is that the former is a trial version of the full product while the latter is the 'lite' version that you describe (at least I think that's what seemed to happen, but I'm not going to verify it: I've already wasted enough time on something that I'm not at all confident in using. at least on Win2K - which is not meant to criticize your much-appreciated effort to help people find useful applications, just to note that some of your information needs updating).
- bill
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