Purchased Registry Crawler.

Question

I bought Registry Crawler for 2 computers a long time ago. Both were running Windows XP and my wife's laptop still does. I now have an up to date PC running Windows 10 and would like to install the purchased Registry Crawler on it. I do not remember my account etc. so how do I go about this now? My email used was [email protected] or [email protected] I believe. Both are still valid. I also had one that is deleted [email protected], which I may have used.

Answer 1

It's not recommended to use an app released in 2003 on newer operating systems like Windows 10 primarily because Windows 10 has been redesigned from core and Registry Crawler might do much more harm than good. Instead of using Registry Crawler, download and install CCleaner. The application will clean your registry keys, clean the unnecessary files and typically clean your hard drives including the bad items that might reside on hard disk or registry database.

Download from the following link: http://ccleaner.software.informer.com/

Answer 2

@Esa Lehti - hi, did you get anywhere with this? If not, you could try emailing their support directly at [email protected] - seems to have been abandoned some time ago so not sure if it'll install or run ok on Windows 10.

@Alex Urbach - Registry Crawler is not what you think. It doesn't have a scan & 'clean' or repair function or anything like it. It's a searcher & 'editor' only & the best of its kind I've ever used or tested, even in 2017. I find it hard to believe a program so good has been abandoned by its developer (I'm sure there's a valid reason). Possibly sold on to another developer, but I've not found another shareware/freeware editor that works as well & as blindingly quick with the useful functions it has.

Answer 3

Thanks. I have emailed their support directly.

Answer 4

Ive used this since it came out. On all the OS since release and have never had any issue with this program. Works great for cleaning your reigistry. CCleaner used to be good till all the BS was added to the program.

Answer 5

Talk about recommending dangerous software!

Registry Crawler is simply a registry search program. It is fast, efficient, reliable and safe. It searches the active registry for matches of the search text and lists the keys and values found along with links to the registry location. Reg Crawler itself does NOT change, edit or modify the registry. Clicking a link will invoke the Microsoft registry editor for the current version of Windows so there is no compatibility or out-of-date software issues.

OTOH, CCleaner, at best, will delete some harmless fluff that is just taking up space (but is used to inflate the numbers of its "effectiveness" - like all the "cleaners" do). However, CCleaner can, and often will, do wholesale deletions that can render your system unbootable.

The basic architecture of the Windows registry (hive, keys and values), has not and will not change over the various versions of Windows. Changing the architecture would break almost every windows application in the world. Even Microsoft is not that stupid!

Answer 6

@Esa Lehti

Your registration data was encoded in the "HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\4Developers\RCrawler\4D"
key/value on your registered machine. Hopefully you made and kept a backup copy.

Your name and serial number are hex encoded plain text strings at offsets x00 and x0100 (256) respectively. The rest of the 4D value is zeros so the registration text will be obvious. Just convert the hex codes back to ANSI and you are good to go.