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Changes from v4.22 Beta 4 -> v4.22

• Added ability to export the registry key to a file without subkeys.
• Added ability to import binary registry files.
• Now Reg Organizer allows you to export registry keys or the entire registry to reg files both in the modern format with Unicode encoding and in the old Windows 98/NT4 format with ANSI encoding.
• During the registry files import and export, operation progress is now displayed.
• While saving the registry search results to a file, the program also adds information about the search string and the number of matches to it.
• Column widths in all main tables showing data are automatically adjusted when changing the table size.
• The Automatic Registry Cleanup feature does not show entries which cannot be removed and repaired (due to the insufficient privileges of the user in the system).
• Better performance on system data changing operations. These include modifying and deleting the registry data, deleting files, using Application Uninstall mode, and some other operations.
• Disk Cleanup mode:
• Searching for invalid files is now faster.
• The Disk Cleanup mode Ignore List now supports the Clean Folders feature. Now the program looks up the Ignore List while preparing for deleting objects and does not delete ones that match the Ignore List.
• The Disk Cleanup mode context menu now has a command for saving found objects to a text file.
• Interface improvements:
• The Disk Cleanup results view has been optimized. The number of columns in the results table has been reduced for easier reading.
• The Registry Editing mode context menu has been optimized: Commands that are not available at the moment are no longer displayed. Also when right- clicking on the key, the menu contains only the commands related to the key, not the value, and vice versa.
• Changes in the program main menu: The "Selection" submenu (available when using the Manual Registry Cleanup mode) allows you to quickly mark several entries at once. Rarely used commands have been removed from the "Commands" submenu. The "Search" submenu has been removed from the main menu as it was rarely used.
• Fixed bugs:
• When a file mask was disabled in the Settings of the Disk Cleanup mode, the program still searched for unnecessary files using this mask.
• Some computers running under Windows Vista could freeze during a search through the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry key.
• The "Access violation..." error message after a right click on any item on the "Shell Folders" tab in the Manual Registry Cleanup mode.
• An attempt to delete the default key values in the Registry Editing mode did not result in actual deletion.
• After renaming any log file in the Application Uninstall mode, the program could fail to show some of the registry keys associated with this log file when viewing it.
• After renaming a value or key in the Registry Editing mode, the old (before renaming) name of the value or the key could be displayed in the main menu and in the context menu of the mode.
• The size of very large files could be displayed incorrectly (as a negative number) in the "Size, bytes" column of the list with the results of the Disk Cleanup mode.
• When trying to remove unnecessary files using the Disk Cleanup mode under Windows Vista, some of them could remain unremoved.
• After removing a program from the "Software" tab of the Manual Registry Cleanup Mode, the useless empty key related to the deleted application could remain unremoved.
• Incorrect items sorted by size in the Disk Cleanup results table could occur, if one contains files of a very large size.
• When copying and renaming the registry keys containing values of REG_MILTI_SZ and some other types that rarely occurred in the registry, the type of these values might be erroneously changed to REG_NONE.
• Removing some items from the New File Menu tab in the Manual Registry Cleanup mode could result not only in this item being removed from the menu, but also in unregistering the file association of the corresponding file type in the system.
• Sometimes it was impossible to remove unnecessary files found with the Disk Cleanup feature.
• During the recovery of log files in the software removal mode, the registry parameters of the REG_MULTI_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ types containing characters from national alphabets could be processed incorrectly.

Changes from v4.22 Beta 3 -> v4.22 Beta 4

• Added ability to import binary registry files.
• During the registry files import and export the operation progress is now displayed.

Changes from v4.22 Beta 2 -> v4.22 Beta 3

• Now Reg Organizer allows you to export registry keys or the entire registry to reg files both in the modern format with Unicode encoding and in the old Windows 98/NT4 format with ANSI encoding.
• Added ability to export the registry key to a file without subkeys.
• Column widths in all main tables showing data are automatically adjusted when changing the table size.
• Bugs fixed:
• Removing some items from the New File Menu tab in the Manual Registry Cleanup mode could result not only in this item being removed from the menu, but also in unregistering the file association of the corresponding file type in the system.
• Sometimes it was impossible to remove unnecessary files found with the Disk Cleanup feature.
• During the recovery of log files in the software removal mode, the registry parameters of the REG_MULTI_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ types containing characters from national alphabets could be processed incorrectly.

Changes from v4.22 Beta 1 -> v4.22 Beta 2

• The Disk Cleanup results view has been optimized, the number of columns in the results table has been reduced for easier reading.
• The Registry Editing Mode context menu bas been simplified. When right clicking on the key the menu contains only the commands related to the key, not the value, and vice versa.
• The Automatic Registry Cleanup feature does not show entries which cannot be removed and repaired due to the insufficient privileges of the user in the system.
• Bugs fixed:
• After removing a program from the "Software" tab of the Manual Registry Cleanup Mode the useless empty key related to the deleted application could remain unremoved.
• Incorrect items sort by size in the Disk Cleanup results table could occur if one contains files of the very large size.
• When copying and renaming the registry keys containing values of REG_MILTI_SZ and some other types rarely occurred in the registry the type of these values might be erroneously changed to REG_NONE.

Changes from v4.21 -> v4.22 Beta 1

• Better performance on system data changing operations. These include modifying and deleting the registry data, deleting files, using Application Uninstall mode and some other operations.
• Disk Cleanup mode:
• Searching for invalid files is now faster.
• The Disk Cleanup mode Ignore List now supports the Clean Folders feature. Now the program looks up the Ignore List while preparing for deleting objects and does not delete ones that matching the Ignore List.
• Interface improvements:
• The Registry Editing mode context menu has been optimized: commands that are not available at the moment are no longer displayed.
• The Disk Cleanup mode context menu now has a command for saving found objects to a text file.
• Changes in the program main menu: the "Selection" submenu available when using the Manual Registry Cleanup mode allows to quickly mark several entries at once. Rarely used commands have been removed from the "Commands" submenu. The "Search" submenu has been removed from the main menu as it was rarely used.
• While saving the registry search results to a file, the program also adds information about the search string and the number of matches to it.
• Fixed bugs:
• When some file mask was disabled in the Settings of the Disk Cleanup mode, the program still searched for unnecessary files using this mask.
• Some computers running under Windows Vista could freeze during a search through the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry key.
• The "Access violation..." error message after a right click on any item on the "Shell Folders" tab in the Manual Registry Cleanup mode.
• An attempt to delete the default key values in the Registry Editing mode did not result in actual deletion.
• After renaming any log file in the Application Uninstall mode, the program could fail to show some of the registry keys associated with this log file when viewing it.
• After renaming a value or key in the Registry Editing mode, the old (before renaming) name of the value or the key could be displayed in the main menu and in the context menu of the mode.
• The size of very large files could be displayed incorrectly (as a negative number) in the "Size, bytes" column of the list with the results of the Disk Cleanup mode.
• When trying to remove the unnecessary files using the Disk Cleanup mode under Windows Vista, some of them could remain unremoved.

Changes from v4.21 Beta 2 -> v4.21

• The Registry Search Mode algorithm was strongly improved. Now the is performed much faster than in the previous version.
• Now the operations related to making changes to the Registry (creating, deleting, or modifying keys and values) are performed faster. Some other operations, such as deleting a large number of unnecessary files in the disk cleanup feature and removing an application from the system using the Applications Uninstall mode, are also performed faster.
• The Automatic Registry Cleanup feature can now check objects in folders to which access is denied. The Automatic Registry Cleanup feature now works correctly.
• Optimized interface of the Automatic Registry Cleanup results tab.

Changes from v4.10 -> v4.20

• Disk Cleanup mode:
• Now you can clear temporary folders (the so-called "Clean folders"). All files, regardless of their types, will be deleted from the specified folders.
• Faster disk scan.
• Manual Registry Cleanup mode:
• An "IE Context Menu" tab has been added. It shows items from the Internet Explorer context menu. You can remove unnecessary items.
• The algorithms of tabs showing the items on the New File and Open With... operating system menus have been more clearly defined and revised (in the previous version the content of these tabs could be somewhat different from the corresponding menus of the operating system).
• Improvements in the Registry Search and Replace mode:
• The find and replace feature now supports Registry entry values of the REG_MULTI_SZ type (a multi-line string).
• To make them more visual, coincidences in strings are highlighted in bold in the table with search results.
• If you find and then replace matches, Reg Organizer shows the number of replaced matches. (Only the number of found matches was previously shown, and it could have been different from the number of replaced matches when Reg Organizer could not replace some matches.)
• Applications Uninstall mode:
• A more visual representation of the application uninstall report is provided. Now both successfully completed stages of application removal and those that had errors are graphically highlighted.
• The removing log file button was moved from the Application Uninstallation window to the toolbar of the Logged Applications tab.
• Registry Editing mode:
• When opening keys from Favorites, they are automatically expanded.
• When selecting a key from the drop-down list containing the previously displayed keys, the program automatically opens the selected key. (Previously it was only displayed in the key input field.)
• When quickly scrolling through the tables of data, the content does not flicker any more.
• Reg Organizer restores the width of all table columns in the main window.
• The documentation has been updated.
• Fixed bugs including below:
• The memory leak has been fixed and, as a result, there is no performance degradation when you open the "New File Menu" tab in the Manual Registry Cleanup mode.
• Registry Search and Replace mode:
• After you remove Registry entries, the total number of entries is now refreshed.
• When saving the Registry search results to a text file, unnecessary (service) characters are no longer present in the strings containing the matches.
• When editing entries of the DWORD type, the new value of the edited entry is now displayed in the "After Replacement" column.
• If the "Whole words only" option was enabled, search strings located in the middle of a sentence were skipped and were not included in search results.
• For automatic replacement in the registry, the value of an entry was not modified, but only its name was modified when the string for replacement was found both in the name and in the value of one entry.
• In Applications Uninstall mode, when viewing file system changes the installed application made, the names of the modified, created, and deleted files were duplicated.
• The "Skip hidden files and folders" and "Skip system files and folders" options in the Disk Cleanup settings were always considered disabled, even if they were selected.

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