Search in all files tweak

Wildman1255 · 16 Feb 2006 at 20:12

Hi all,

Anyone got any ideas how to follow this procedure below?

Search in all files

Provided by Borris: Another quick tweak - useful for searching for strings in files:

code:REGEDIT

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xyz\PersistentHandler = {098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}

Add this key to your registry (copy and paste to notepad, as many times as required, save as .reg), where .xyz is the extension of the file in which you wish to search.

Windows only allows you to search in a few files by default (.txt, .doc etc...) but now you can search in all of them.

I have entered the registry but cannot find the \.xyz file? Am I doing something wrong.

Ps. Everyone has to start somewhere

Thanks people

marc2003 · 16 Feb 2006 at 20:21

the .xyz has to be the extension of the files you want to search. for example

.txt
.doc

Wildman1255 · 16 Feb 2006 at 20:43

marc2003 said:
the .xyz has to be the extension of the files you want to search. for example

.txt
.doc

Marc2003,

Thanks for the reply. How do I add the key to the registry though like it says?
Or am I just making it more complicated for myself than it actually is?

:confused:

Borris · 20 Feb 2006 at 09:59

Create a new notepad file, and enter the following:

Code:

REGEDIT

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xyz\PersistentHandler = {098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}

Change .xyz to whichever filetype you require.

Save the file with a .reg extension.

Double click the file to enter into registry.

I used to have a batch script that would automatically enter the key for every file type listed in the registry, but can't find it.