If you want to show all the matches at once, use
Registry Agent, introduced in the next section.
Figure 3-6. Use Registry Editor??™s Search feature to find text in key names, value names,
and value data
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The Registry
You may need to employ some tricks to find certain types of things in the
Registry, such as:
Context menu items
Context menu items are usually stored in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT branch
(see ???File Type Associations,??? later in this chapter). When searching for
any menu items, keep in mind that most of them have underlined characters
to signify keyboard shortcuts, even though, ironically, Windows
Vista doesn??™t display them by default. For instance, the Datasheet
action associated with Access Form Shortcuts in Microsoft Office 2007
is actually stored as Data&sheet in the Registry. This allows it to be displayed
as Datasheet if you manage to open the menu with the keyboard
(an increasingly difficult task in Windows Vista). The & character in
Data&sheet instructs Windows to underline the character that follows it
(the s in this case), and since it??™s present in the Registry value, you??™ll
need to include the & character in your searches; if you don??™t, the Search
tool won??™t find it.
Text searches are not case-sensitive, so you don??™t have to
worry about capitalization when typing your search terms.
File and folder names
Despite the fact that long filenames (those longer than the archaic 8-dot-3
standard left over from the early days of DOS) had been in wide use
on the PC platform for well over a decade before Windows Vista was
released, short filenames* still have a role in modern Windows computing,
particularly in the Registry.
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