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[fayyazlodhi]

There are all kinds of free wares, licensed tools available for cleaning registry, removing unwanted files, disk defragmentation etc.

But i couldn't find any open source project / code reference doing so.

Does any body have any idea how to do this for Windows OS programmatically?

Though my preference would be C# but any language reference is fine.

[WingedPanther]

Working in the registry isn't very hard, the trick is knowing what all the registry settings do.

[fayyazlodhi]

Well i do have a general idea of how it works and the usage of settings. I am familiar with editing / deleting entries using regedit.

What i was looking for was some API interface for accessing it and was a little surprised i didn't find any thing useful using google.

[Revolt]

You mean this: Registry Class (Microsoft.Win32) ?

I think it's a pretty complete API!

[WingedPanther]

Most languages I've dealt with have pretty reasonable Registry handling functions built in. I wouldn't look for it as an API, but simply as an element of the language.

[sam_coder]

little registry cleaner is a fantastic open source windows registry optimizer.

It's small/lightweight, and fast.

it requires .NET to run. Little Registry Cleaner | Download Little Registry Cleaner software for free at SourceForge.net

I know this isn't what you asked, but you did say you couldn't find one. =) Perhaps it could give you some ideas.

This is one of those programs that commercial offerings should look to, for how to do it properly.

[fayyazlodhi]

Thanks Revolt, some how i didn't came across that link. All i could find was tons of utilities but no code. It will definitely be very useful.

WP, perhaps i haven't worked with it before programmatically so had no idea about support as part of language. Plus my main stream experience is with C, even that not specific to windows API

Thanks sam_coder. I meant i couldn't find one with code. I will take another look though i suspect i have used it before and there wasn't much of implementation hints.

[sam_coder]

hey no-problem-o, it's written in C#, code is available here:
http://launchpad.net...e_7_18_2010.zip

[fayyazlodhi]

Ah yeah it looks pretty comprehensive. I was mistaken. Thanks sam_coder that would really help. I am skimming through the source now.