What's new in RegScanner 2.75
Mar 7, 2024
- Added 'Automatically skip a corrupted recursive key' option. If RegScanner crashes while scanning the Registry on your system, try to turn on this option.
New in RegScanner 2.71 (Jun 8, 2022)
- Added 'Refresh' option (F5), which searches the Registry again according to the last search options.
New in RegScanner 2.70 (May 9, 2022)
- Added 'Subkey Depth' option (The default is Infinite).
New in RegScanner 2.65 (Nov 23, 2021)
- Added new option: 'Open In RegEdit Without Elevation', which allows you to open the selected Registry key in RegEdit without Administrator privileges.
- Fixed bug: RegScanner failed to export to .reg file properly when scanning the 64-bit Registry using the 32-bit version of RegScanner.
- 'Open In RegEdit' option - Fixed to open the 64-bit version of RegEdit when scanning the 64-bit Registry using the 32-bit version of RegScanner.
New in RegScanner 2.61 (Aug 16, 2021)
- Added option to choose another font (name and size) to display in the main window (Under the View menu).
New in RegScanner 2.60 (Aug 20, 2020)
- Added option to filter the search by the owner of the Registry key. You can choose to search only Registry key with specific owners, or to exclude specific owners from the search. You can specify multiple Registry key owners as comma-delimited list, for example: SYSTEM, TrustedInstaller
New in RegScanner 2.55 (Jul 14, 2020)
- Added 'Key Owner' column, which displays the owner name of the Registry key.
- Fixed to export properly REG_NONE values.
New in RegScanner 2.51 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Fixed bug: RegScanner saved the settings in the Registry instead of .cfg file.
- Fixed RegScanner to use the .cfg file in the current directory if the folder is not specfied in the /cfg command-line option.
New in RegScanner 2.50 (Jun 4, 2020)
- Added new search option: 'Registry item contains remote network path'. When you select this option, RegScanner searches and displays any string that looks like a path to remote computer on your network, for example: \192.168.0.10c$ , Z:Windows (Only if Z: is remote network drive).
- This feature can be useful if your system freezes when your network is disconnected and you want to find references to remote computers in the Registry in order to try to fix the problem.
New in RegScanner 2.47 (May 3, 2020)
- Fixed the 'Automatically start remote Registry service' option to start the service on the remote computer when it's disabled.
New in RegScanner 2.46 (Mar 31, 2020)
- Added /RunAsSystem command-line option for running RegScanner as SYSTEM user from command line.
- Added /RunAsAdmin command-line option for running RegScanner as Administrator (elevation) from command line.
New in RegScanner 2.45 (Feb 24, 2020)
- Added 'Run As System' option (Under the help menu), which allows you to easily run RegScanner as system user in order to search Registry hives accessible only with system user (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESAM and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESecurity ).
New in RegScanner 2.40 (Aug 29, 2019)
- Added 'Copy As .Reg File Format' option (Ctrl+R)
- Added /sreg command-line option.
New in RegScanner 2.36 (Aug 8, 2019)
- Added option to start the remote Registry service when scanning the Registry of remote machine.
New in RegScanner 2.35 (Jun 20, 2019)
- Added option to scan the 32-bit or 64-bit view of the Regsitry.
- By default (When you don't choose the 32-bit or 64-bit option) - the 32-bit version of RegScanner scans the 32-bit Registry and the 64-bit version of RegScanner scans the 64-bit Registry.
New in RegScanner 2.31 (May 22, 2018)
- Fixed issue (RegScanner 32-bit without elevation): When scanning the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesVirtualStoreMachineSOFTWARE key, RegScanner displayed the keys stored under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware key. This problem was caused by a bug in Regsitry API of Windows, and a workaround was added to RegScanner so the Registry scan will work properly with this bug.
New in RegScanner 2.30 (Feb 27, 2018)
- Added option to search Registry keys modified in the last xx seconds/minutes/hours/days.
- Added 'Today' button to set the time range fields for today.
New in RegScanner 2.26 (Jan 31, 2018)
- Fixed bug: 'Exact Match' search didn't work properly for REG_SZ data.
New in RegScanner 2.25 (Sep 12, 2017)
- Added option to scan the Registry from command-line and export he result to csv/tab-delimited/html file.
New in RegScanner 2.20 (Aug 23, 2017)
- Added 'Export Value To Binary File' option.
- Fixed the status bar display during scanning to be smoother and without flickering.
New in RegScanner 2.17 (May 23, 2016)
- Added 'New RegScanner Instance' under the File menu, for opening a new window of RegScanner
New in RegScanner 2.16 (Feb 4, 2016)
- Fixed bug: When exporting value names with '\' character, RegScanner exported it as one '\' character instead of 2 '\' characters.
New in RegScanner 2.15 (Sep 14, 2015)
- You can now specify multiple base keys to scan, delimited by comma. (For example: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion, HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion ). Be aware that if the base key you want to scan contains a comma character, you have enclose the key with quotes (For example: "HKLM\Software\My,Key")
New in RegScanner 2.10 (Apr 24, 2015)
- The date/time values are now saved to the config file.
- Added 'Save Settings' button for saving the settings without scan.
- Fixed the edit mode in date/time controls.
New in RegScanner 2.07 (Feb 23, 2015)
- Added 'Run As Administrator' option (Ctrl+F11), which allows you to easily run RegScanner as administrator on Windows Vista/7/8/2008.
New in RegScanner 2.06 (Dec 5, 2014)
- RegScanner now remmebers the last position of the scan options window.
- Fixed bug: RegScanner failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
New in RegScanner 2.05 (Sep 11, 2014)
- Fixed bug: RegScanner crashed when searching values using wildcard
New in RegScanner 2.04 (Jan 3, 2014)
- Fixed to display date/time values according to daylight saving time settings
New in RegScanner 2.03 (Nov 25, 2013)
- Added 'Clear Recent Files List' option to the 'Recent Config Files' menu
New in RegScanner 2.02 (Oct 6, 2013)
- The find string is now displayed in the title bar of the main window.
New in RegScanner 2.01 (Jul 31, 2013)
- When running RegScanner on Windows Vista/7/8/2008 without 'Run As Administrator', it now allows you to use the 'Open In RegEdit' feature (Elevation window will appear when using the 'Open In RegEdit' option).
New in RegScanner 2.00 (Jul 8, 2013)
- Added option to search Registry items by wildcards. (For example: *num* , abc????)
New in RegScanner 1.96 (May 28, 2013)
- RegScanner now remembers the last 20 find strings you used and allows you to easily choose them again from a combo-box.
- Fixed the flickering occurred while scrolling the Registry items.
New in RegScanner 1.95 (Oct 22, 2012)
- Fixed the export and delete features to work properly on the Registry of remote computer.
- Fixed issue: The properties and the other windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
New in RegScanner 1.90 (Jul 20, 2012)
- Added 'Recent Config Files' menu, which allows you to easily open the last 10 configuration files that you used.
New in RegScanner 1.85 (Feb 4, 2011)
- Added option to exclude one or more keys from the Regsitry scanning. You can specify the Regsitry keys to exclude as comma-delimited list. By using this feature you can skip some major Registry keys (like HKLM\Software\Classes) to make the search much faster
New in RegScanner 1.83 (Dec 29, 2010)
- The status bar now displays the total data size of selected Registry items in KB/MB
New in RegScanner 1.82 (Apr 19, 2010)
- Added the 'Delete Selected Keys/Values' option into the context menu, as well as this options is now disabled if there is no any selected Registry item.
New in RegScanner 1.81 (Apr 8, 2010)
- Fixed problem: On Windows 7/Vista, RegScanner entered into a recursive scan of VirtualStore key , something like HKCR\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore...
New in RegScanner 1.80 (Oct 26, 2009)
- Added 'Delete Selected Keys/Values' option
New in RegScanner 1.77 (Mar 24, 2009)
- Fixed bug: When searching a key in 'Exact Match' mode, RegScanner compared the search string with the full key path, and thus it never found the key
New in RegScanner 1.76 (Feb 9, 2009)
- Export Selected Items - String values are now exported as strings and DWord values are now exported as DWords. (In previous versions they exported as binary)
- Fixed bug: When using 'Export Selected Items' more than once, the first key was missed.
New in RegScanner 1.75 (Jan 26, 2009)
- New option: Show found items during the scan process
New in RegScanner 1.70 (Jul 12, 2008)
- Added 2 regular expression options
New in RegScanner 1.65 (May 10, 2008)
- Fixed bug in x64 version: RegScanner returned wrong search results.
New in RegScanner 1.64 (May 5, 2008)
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to RegScanner
New in RegScanner 1.63 (Apr 10, 2008)
- Added support for saving as comma-delimited file
New in RegScanner 1.62 (Jan 18, 2008)
- Fixed bug: RegScanner displayed a crash window immediately after running it.
New in RegScanner 1.61 (Dec 28, 2007)
- Fixed bug: RegScanner remained in memory if you closed the main window during the Registry scan
New in RegScanner 1.60 (Dec 10, 2007)
- Fixed bug opening HKLM in RegEdit failed if there was no '' character.
- New option: 'Open Clipboard Text In RegEdit' - Allows you to open RegEdit with the key that is currently in the clipboard.
- New command-line option: /clipregedit
New in RegScanner 1.56 (Oct 24, 2007)
- Removed the text length limit from the 'Base Key' combo-box
New in RegScanner 1.50 (Jun 11, 2007)
- New option: Support Reg: Links - Allows you to use reg: links for opening Registry keys in RegEdit. For example: reg:HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion
- New command-line option: /regedit
- New option: Create Delete .Reg File - Creates a .reg file that deletes all selected Registry values.