Search the Registry
The Registry Editor has a simple (to a fault) Search feature, allowing you to
search through all the keys and values for text. Just select Find from the Registry
Editor??™s Edit menu, type the desired text (Figure 3-6), and click Find Next.
The Registry Editor??™s Search feature is pretty terrible. For one, it??™s hopelessly
slow, and doesn??™t show a history of past searches. But its biggest
drawback is that it only shows one match at a time; you have to click Find
Next repeatedly to cycle through all the search results, one by one. And if
you accidentally double-click Find Next, there??™s no going backward. Finally,
there??™s no search-and-replace feature, but more on that later.
Press Ctrl-F or select Edit ??? Find to begin a search at the selected key. (Scroll
to the top and select Computer beforehand to search the entire Registry.)
In the Find window, make sure that all three options in the Look at section are
checked, unless you know specifically that what you??™re looking for is solely a
Key, a Value (value name), or Data (value contents). You??™ll also usually want
the Match whole string only option turned off, unless you??™re searching for text
that commonly appears in other words; searching for handle might otherwise
trigger entries like PersistentHandler and TeachAndLearn.
The Registry Editor stops once it finds the first match to
your search term; just press F3 to continue searching for the
next match.
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