Registry Finder Problem

greycap

When I put a search word in Registry Finder (after uninstalling an application) and commence a search, I get several thousand entries instead of the expected half dozen or so. I'm reasonably confident that this is easily fixed. but I'm not sure how.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

tullik

Please tell what the search word was. :

greycap

The searchword was 'sitehound' (an application I had just uninstalled)

tullik

I was not able to reproduce this problem:

1. Installed the sitehound BHO

2. Ran Registry Finder, search word=sitehound, got 59 hits

3. Started IE to confirm presence of sitehound; linked to 2 or 3 websites; closed IE

4. Ran Registry Finder, search word=sitehound, got 59 hits

5. Uninstalled sitehound using Control Panel Add/Remove -- it left behind an empty Program Files folder and an empty Start Menu folder

6. Started IE to confirm absence of sitehound

7. Ran Registry Finder, search word=sitehound, got 55 hits

8. Removed all 55 with Registry Finder

9. Ran Registry Finder, search word=sitehound, got 0 hits

Is there any pattern to the 1000's of hits you get with your search?

How about doing a copy and paste of a few examples into your next post?

tullik

Never mind.

I added a line with a space in it in the Registry Finder Search words tab -- I get 1000's of hits.

Just clean up what you have in that tab. :

greycap

Tulik, many thanks for your valiant efforts. I'm not sure, however, how I can 'clean up' a single, un-hyphenated word. I still have the problem. Maybe I'm missing something really obvious?

Thanks again for all your efforts.

tullik

Spaces (or blank characters) are of course not visible.

You probably have one of these situations in your search words:

sitehound

where the asterisk is one or more spaces.

You have to remove the lines with the spaces.

There could be several such lines, like

sitehound

...

greycap

Well I'll be dipped .............. Tulik, I did as you suggested, and it worked like a charm. Never would have figured that out myself. Thanks again. Cheers

tullik

Glad to help. Imho, the program should ignore such an obvious (to it) but invisible (to users) harmless mistake.

tausend

A very good help and explaination from tullik there!

With those:

sitehound

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Here is what I always do when I have deleted a program:

first of all I notice the name plus the firm`s name, do a reboot, let registry-cleaner do his job and THEN use registry-finder at first putting in the name of game/tool and search and secondly the firm`s name and seperate search. This is my way to avoid too many entries.

Regards