Registry Finder Searching Question

j-mac

Can any type of Boolean or similar search terms be used in Registry Finder?

I am trying to locate certain Corel keys and am having a lot of difficulty. Specifically I would like to edit or delete the autupdate key(s) for Corel Paint Shop Pro. However I have several Corel products installed and searching for "Corel autoupdate" or even "Corel update" is not successful. For example, Corel update returns all instances of "update" in the registry, which is a LOT!

I tried Corel +update, "Corel update", Corel AND update. All without success. any modifier I use causes zero results to be returned. If I leave out the modifiers I get all the keys with "update" in them.

Searching for Corel doesn't help as that returns several thousand keys -- it looks like each separate Corel application has about 4,000 keys associated with it.

I really do not want to scroll through thousands of keys hoping to find what I need.

Is there any way to combine terms when performing a search using Registry Finder?

Thanks!

Jim

tullik

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j-mac

OK. Thanks Tulik.

I was hoping that I was just missing something, but I guess it's just not doable with this app.

I appreciate the reply/

Jim

jv16

J-Mac wrote

I tried Corel +update, "Corel update", Corel AND update. All without success. any modifier I use causes zero results to be returned. If I leave out the modifiers I get all the keys with "update" in them.

...

Is there any way to combine terms when performing a search using Registry Finder?

Yes there is, it's called the Perl regular expression search. It uses the standard perl regular expressions, you can find more info about them at:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=perl+regular+expressions&btnG=Google+Search

tullik

jv16 wrote
J-Mac wrote

I tried Corel +update, "Corel update", Corel AND update. All without success. any modifier I use causes zero results to be returned. If I leave out the modifiers I get all the keys with "update" in them.

...

Is there any way to combine terms when performing a search using Registry Finder?

Yes there is, it's called the Perl regular expression search. It uses the standard perl regular expressions, you can find more info about them at:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=perl+regular+expressions&btnG=Google+Search

Registry Finder and perl

Using the search word DosDevices with either the normal or perl method yields the lines shown below.

What perl expression in Registry Finder's Search words would:

1. cause only the lines containing PRN to show?

2. cause all the lines to show except those containing PRN?

Are such functions supported? I tried:

1. DosDevices && PRN

2. DosDevices ! PRN

Both caused nothing to show.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

jv16 PowerTools 2007

Data fields are: Key, Entry's name, Value, Entry last modified

HKLM\HWare\DEVICEMAP\PARALLEL PORTS\, \Device\Parallel0, \DosDevices\LPT1, 09.07.2007, 20

HKLM\Sys\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices\, AUX, \DosDevices\COM1, 14.04.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices\, PRN, \DosDevices\LPT1, 14.04.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\ControlSet003\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices\, AUX, \DosDevices\COM1, 14.04.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\ControlSet003\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices\, PRN, \DosDevices\LPT1, 14.04.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\E:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\H:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\I:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\K:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\L:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\Q:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\J:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\F:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\D:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\C:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\G:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\M:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\N:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\O:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\MountedDevices\, \DosDevices\P:, N/A, 04.06.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices\, AUX, \DosDevices\COM1, 14.04.2007, 13

HKLM\Sys\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices\, PRN, \DosDevices\LPT1, 14.04.2007, 13

j-mac

I was doing some reading about Perl regular expressions to try and find out just how I could use it when I saw that you had posted.

Looks like I would have run into some problems anyway!

Thanks

jv16

Good news: we are adding support for boolean search strings, like

searchword1 AND searchword2,

searchword1 or (searchword2 AND NOT searchword3)

etc

I mean I guess you could do these with regexp but it just seems too difficult.

This should be done quite fast, within a week or so.

tullik

jv16 wrote
Good news: we are adding support for boolean search strings, like

searchword1 AND searchword2,

searchword1 or (searchword2 AND NOT searchword3)

etc

I mean I guess you could do these with regexp but it just seems too difficult.

This should be done quite fast, within a week or so.

At the same time, will you do

ignoreword1 AND ignoreword2,

ignoreword1 or (ignoreword2 AND NOT ignoreword3)

etc?

jrd1st

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j-mac

Great! That'll help.

Very much appreciated.