It will display your search results, let you compare entries, provide quick access to your favorites and history, as well as help you make use of RegShot, the app’s registry snapshotting tool.

The results appear in the bottom panel, which is also a new and appreciated addition. You can jump to your entries as usual, and to help with that, the Search function has been improved to display all results instead of the one-at-a-time way of the default app. The program’s interface, though maintaining the practicality needed for various Windows Registry tasks, ends up being easier to work with than the built-in solution. RegCool brands itself as an advanced registry editor that provides some added convenience through its quality-of-life features, leading to a more efficient workflow in the end. Power user or not, you may nevertheless get a better experience from a third-party alternative instead.

While there’s usually little need to venture into your registry to take matters into your own hands, the built-in Registry Editor isn’t as opaque as it may initially seem. The ability to view registry entries, edit them as you see fit, and even add new ones is certainly a curious one.

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