Search the registry for words

Registry First Aid allows you to search the registry keys and/or values for words or strings. It can be started from the Home page by selecting the Search the Registry option.

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This feature is useful if you want to find all registry entries that remained from un-installed/removed applications. You can enter a removed program name and its company name in order to get a list of all entries found in the registry. Then you may delete entries or edit them manually using the Open the registry key with RegEdit command from the right-click pop-up menu.

For an example please see this link: How you might use the key word search feature.

Note: Caution! This Search tool is NOT to find "BAD" entries, but "ALL" entries that contain a word. It's used to see if entries are left in your registry after uninstalling a program say like Norton Utilities where you could search for words like Symantec and Norton to see what is left behind and then delete WHAT YOU WANT not all that are displayed.

The program searches HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS or HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry entries. Scanning may take a few minutes depending on your processor and available memory. Found entries are displayed in the list view on the found registry entries page. Note that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive is the subkey \Software\Classes of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. So, it is scanned by Registry First Aid too.