Regfind is a utility for searching through a Win32 registry. This program and is meant for use with NT and other win32 platforms. It has been tested with NT 3.5x, 4.0 and Windows 2000. Regfind started off as a perl utility for Windows NT but was rewritten in C as the perl interpreter, at that time, had a bug in the registry access functions. It has undergone exhaustive testing but, nevertheless, I would welcome any bug-reports you might have. This utility does not write to the registry and should, therefore, not cause any damage to it. Microsoft has stated over and over again that modifications to the registry can render the system unusable. Regfind does not modify the registry in any way. However, please read the disclaimer in section 6 below. Regfind is a console application: you can run it from a DOS box just like other command line programs. A GUI front-end would be nice but for simplicity that has been eschewed. In the meantime many such applications are now available. Regfind accepts various parameters and they are explained in the section below. Thanks to this program I have been able to unearth vestiges of obsolete data. After I had changed network names on a few nodes I noticed that my machine was extremely slow when certain programs were started. I searched for old machine names, deleted them from the registry and speed was restored. Those applications were apparently waiting for the old hosts to respond and only after a time-out error was reported did they continue. Thus removing those names from the registry caused the application to start faster.