Clone RegEditX and RegCrawler

It is a pain.  We have to run two installation programs, clicking through all the defaults.  RegCrawler needs to be unlocked by remembering and typing in a cryptic sequence of numbers.  And then, there is no easy way of copying our favorite reg keys and settings that are perfectly setup on another computer.

No more.  Read on to learn how to clone your perfect setup of RegEditX and RegCrawler on another computer, in seconds.

Create Clone Folder

1.  Create a folder on your hard disk containing the following structure.  Copy the specified files to the sub-folders.

        RegXRegC                Create this main folder in a temp directory

            REGX\                  Sub-folder containing RegEditX items from c:\program files\regeditx

RegEditX.exe
RegXdll.dll
RegXRsrc.dll
RegEditX.hlp
RegEditX.sav        *1
RegEditX.cnt
 

  REGC\                  Sub-folder containing RegCrawler items from c:\program files\rcrawler

regc.reg                 *2
Computers.DAT
rcrawler.exe
Rcrawler.hlp
rcrawler.cnt
License.txt
Readme.txt
Order.txt

  GO.BAT               Batch file which copies items and imports reg entries   *3

*1 RegEditX saves your current options and combobox keys in RegEditX.sav.  Cloning this file thus clones the options and combobox keys.

*2 RegCrawler saves your settings and registration information in the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\4Developers\RCrawler. So you need to export this key to make them available on the other computer.  Here's how:

    1.  Start RegEditX

    2.  Select this key.

    3.  Select Registry | Export Registry File, and save the key to REGC.REG.  Make sure you specify "Save as type" to be REGEDIT4, if available, so that it can be imported into all Windows versions.

*3 GO.BAT is the batch file you run on the other computer which copies files and imports registry entries to setup RegEditX and RegCrawler.  The batch file is:

REM RegEditX
md "c:\program files\regeditx"
xcopy regx "c:\program files\regeditx"

REM RegC
md "c:\program files\RCrawler"
xcopy regc "c:\program files\RCrawler"
regedit /s regc\regc.reg

REM Run RegEditX
"c:\program files\RegEditX\RegEditX.exe"
 

Move Clone Folder to the other computer

After creating the RegXRegC folder, it's easy.  Copy the RegXRegC folder to a floppy disk (or make it available on a shared network drive).  Insert the floppy in (or access the shared drive on) the other computer, and run GO.BAT.  That's it.  Enjoy the ultimate registry experience on your other computer!