Great product, but i'd like to use it as a registry file validator

[Don Ahrens]

Background:

I have a very old PC that was running Windows 10.  A week or two after Windows 10 support lapsed in October, I started getting into a "BSOD reboot loop" which I assume was a windows update or Norton update gone wrong.  The looping would eventually leave the system OK.  This would happen every week or two.  After the second time it happened, I bought a replacement PC on Craigslist.

I had not yet transitioned to the new PC on December 4th.  The looping happened again, but this time, the power supply turned off on its own.  This left me with a PC that would no longer boot.  It would BSOD "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED in about a minute after starting.  Nothing 

I made a boot CD from a windows ISO.  I tried using system restore, but that BSODed too.  That used up my only restore point.  I tied all the options in the recovery environment, but none worked.   I had no restore points left, and I discovered that I lost the "regback" feature when I updated to windows 10.  I tried to do a "repair in place install" only to find that Microsoft took that option away as well.  I tested memory and copied the partitions to a new HDD.  Nothing I tried got it into safe mode.

I tried all sorts of boot repairs, (DISM and SFC got errors).  To make a long story short, I eventually wound up studying the DISM log file, and I noticed it had trouble reading a key in the SOFTWARE hive. Using the command-line REG command, and using the reg Query command, I could see that the hive had been truncated.  However, I had no backups the registry.

So I began a clean install of windows 11 on the new pc, but didn't totally give up on the old PC.  I bought EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, (it was 60% off) and let it scan the original Hard disk that was installed in the PC.  It found many many deleted copies of the registry files.  It is fortunate that the original BSOD that corrupted the one file, prevented many changes

My Ask:

This registry finder is superior to regedit, so I am going to replace Windows regedit.  The simple fact that you can open an offline registry so easily is a godsend.  However  I have some small requests for a future version.,

1) The offline registry function only points you to the directory where the offline registry exists.  It assumes you want all of the registry files in that directory (with the specific names of SYSTEM, SOFTWARE, SAM, etc..,) with no extensions.  It does not give you any indication if any of the files are corrupted (in my case SOFTWARE).

2) In my case, I have many registry files (example: software, software_0, software_1, etc).  It is a pain to have to keep renaming the current "software" file to "software_bad_0",and then renaming software_0 file to "software".  I have 50+ files I would like to try.  It would be really helpful if I could point Registry Finder to any single file I suspect is a registry file, and validate that it can be loaded.  There are deleted files in "c:\System Volume Info\System Restore" that have the right time/date and number of bytes.  

3) Drag and drop would be really nice.