Registry Scanner

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Registry Scanner

The Registry scanner is a configurable scanner that scans the registry as determined by the Registry Scanner Settings for a particular scan profile. (Pro or Enterprise mode is required to use the Registry scanner.) This information can be viewed on the Registry page of the Computer window.

Inventory comes with two prebuilt scan profiles that use the Registry scanner; Registry Run Keys, and Windows Firewall Configuration.

Note: Deleting a registry scanner deletes all the registry records it gathered (except those also scanned by a different scanner).

Note: Currently scanning in HKEY_USERS only finds values for users that are logged on at the time of the scan (or if their registry hives are loaded for other reasons).

Registry Scanner Settings

Configure the Registry scanner settings in the Edit Registry Scanner window (Pro or Enterprise mode required). Registry scanners can be added to a profile more than once with different settings.

 

To open the Edit Registry Scanner window, go to File > Preferences > Scan Profile, then do one of the following:

When creating a new profile, in the Scan Profile window, click Add > Registry.

When editing a profile, in the Scan Profile window, double-click an existing Registry scanner or select it and click Edit.

Item

Description

Hive

The registry hive to scan.

The HKEY_USERS hive contains all of the currently active user profile hives (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) for each user profile on the computer.

Path

The path within the hive to scan. When the Hive is HKEY_USERS this path is relative to each user profile hive. For the other hives this path is relative to the root.

Include Subtree

Include all of the keys that are below the path.

Row Limit

The maximum number of items that will be returned from the target, default is 2,500 rows.

WARNING: Setting the Row Limit too high can cause performance problems.

 

 

 

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