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I need to clean the Windows registry after manually removing a program. What I need to do is following.

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  1. Find all keys, values, and data containing 'something'.
  2. Delete all keys, values, and data matching the description.

Can I use the Reg command in CMD for this somehow?

Boot config windows 10. By 'something' in this case, I mean 'office12'.

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Samir
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Try Powershell:

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This will traverse recursively throw HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and delete all matching keys. More info here

Krzysztof GapskiKrzysztof Gapski

I think an application called RegScanner can help you, although as noted in other answers, it might not be exactly what you want to do with your registry, so use it with care.

For more destructive power, you can use PsExec with it, e.g.

which will make it run as SYSTEM user. If you still can't delete some registry keys, this article explains how to edit permissions on registry keys.

analytikanalytik

Like I said in the comment, you can delete registry keys all you want, either using the command prompt, or manually with Regedit. Now, the big problem is your first point.

  1. Find all keys, values, and data containing 'something'.

Unless you were monitoring / auditing the registry when you installed the program (and assuming the happy scenario the program didn't add registry keys at runtime, if so you would need to monitor the registry from start to finish), the program might have added keys to the registry in non-obvious places.

Most programs add their registry keys in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSSoftware or in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware in a dedicated branch (I'm looking at wxMaxima, for instance, located in the first path). If you deleted the corresponding branch you could in theory delete all keys associated with the program. However, some programs might alter something somewhere on the rest of the registry, and that doesn't have a good rule of thumb.

If, on the other hand, you did monitor everything, then reversing the changes is trivial (because you know what were they). I suppose you could reinstall the program on a virtual environment and monitor there. In theory you would receive the same results.

From reading the REG help, no option is available to do what you propose on 1. What REG QUERY does is to check the values inside a registry key. To paste a usage:

I'm looking for solutions. One I found involves exporting the Registry to a text file and from there filter the results.

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Doktoro ReichardDoktoro Reichard

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While uninstalling, use RevoUninstaller and then CCleaner. This'll get just about every reference relatively safely.

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