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про них еще в осях упоминалось: это сбор инфы о тебе - статистика юзания тобой прог, страниц, закладок, проч чего угодно. Практической пользы от них - разве что список наиболее часто используемых программ в старт меню или меню удаления софта.
Вред - тормоза загрузки ОСи. И еще чего-то. Обьемы - мне попадалось килов так по 250 ключей.
Так что, разумеется, убить

Dear Sir,

I am using Vista x64 Enterprise, and I am in terrible need of an advanced registry editor, I can't use regedit all the time, it hasn't even got an address bar to jump to a key quickly. However, your editor doesn't work on Vista x64, in fact, no single regeditor available on the market, except for the native regedit built into Vista x64 does. Interesting, that you write on your website:

"Added support for 64-bit Windows"

Have you actually tried your editor on Vista x64? I am going to outline some of the problems I have, this is just a small portion I've experienced in the last 2 weeks I've been trying to work with your editor:

1) The editor doesn't work properly with the keys and values in the Wow6432Node node. It can't change permissions, it doesn't even display the permissions dialog! Insted, it says "the permission settings are not available". In Regedit it works fine!

Reg Workshop doesn't change values in the Wow6432Node node, it doesn't even display them when you doubleclick a value! It either says "the system cannot find the file specified, or it shows an empty field. Even if the value is displayed, if I change it and click the OK button, it is NOT changed!

None of these problems exist in RegEdit. You have to understand that a x32 bit programme will never fully function on a x64 bit system. Regedit is a x64 bit programme, so it works fine, therefore you have to port your programme to x64, apart from fixing all the bugs. Are you aware of the fact that there is not a single native 3rd party x64 bit registry editor on the market?

2) The problems I described above are not limited to the Wow6432Node node, some other keys pose the same problems. In fact, most 3rd party non-Microsoft registry editors have problems with changing permissions, this is true not only for Vista x64, but also for WinXP. I change the permissions for a key and forbid my account to read a certain value, create subkeys, create values etc. But my account still has full access to these keys! When I do exactly the same in Regedit, whether on WinXP or on Vista, it works fine.

Many keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID on Vista x64 are reported as non-existent in Registry Workshop, it can't jump to them. But I can open these keys in Regedit, so they do exist! Registry Workshop just doesn't see them

Another example: I try to change the value of the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\wmplayer.exe -> Path

The value is:
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player

When I try to change it to:
%ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player

Reg Workshop doesn't! If I change it using regedit or by importing a reg file, it works. But then I try to change it again with Reg Workshop, and it automatically always changes the key back to:

%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player

no matter what I write!

Another example:

I navigated to the following key using RegEdit, Registry Workshop, Registrar Registry Manager, and RegEditX:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail

all of them display DIFFERENT subkeys in that key! Some of them e.g. display an "Opera" subkey in that key, while other editors don't! How can this be?! I think, the x32 bit editors are confused by the Vista x64 registry, because it's completely different from the x32 bit registry on older systems.

On your website you also write:

"I see HKLM and HKU in the snapshot. What about HKCR, HKCU and HKCC?

HKLM and HKU contain all registry data. HKCR, HKCU and HKCC are just links."

No, they are not! I exported my entire Windows XP registry through Reg Workshop so that I can open it on Vista and update my Vista registry by copying certain keys from the old registry to the new one. But the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT keys were not saved by Reg Workshop, they were NOT present in the saved registry, so I had to reboot my computer, just to save the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive, because I wanted to export some of the keys to the Vista registry.

I've outlined just a small portion of problems, there are hundreds more. Please, install your regeditor on Vista x64, test it throughly and fix the bugs. And please release a x64 bit version of the editor, if possible.

Registry Workshop 3.1.0

Version 4.2.1 (August 12, 2009)
- Fixed a bug when searching registry.

когда делаешь экспорт локального реестра (либо снимок локального реестра), то в результате получаешь файл всего с двумя разделами вместо 5..

- Added support for displaying the value data in the Find Results window if the value name is matched.
- Added support for resizing the Edit String dialog.
- Improved the performance when expanding all sub keys of a registry key.
- Minor improvements and fixes.

Ошибка при создании контекста активации для "c:\program files\registry workshop\RegWorkshopX64.exe". Не найдена зависимая сборка "Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls,language="*",processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df",type="win32",version="6.0.0.0"".

Version 4.6.1 (January 2, 2013)
-Added support for jumping to the Wow6432Node or non-Wow6432Node equivalent by context menu or shortcut key (Shift+~).
-Added support for moving up to the parent key in registry list by pressing backspace.
-Added "Effective Permissions" tab under advanced security settings of registry key.
-Fixed a bug when displaying context menu on multi-monitor system.
-Fixed bugs when backing up or defragmenting registry in Windows 8.

Version 4.6.2 (January 15, 2013)
Fixed a bug when using backspace to edit the name of key or value.