Windows Registry

Bibliography

• Recovering Deleted Data From the Windows Registry. Timothy Morgan, DFRWS 2008 [paper] [slides]
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• Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry in Memory, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, DFRWS 2008 [slides]
• Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Peter Davies, Computer Forensics: Coursework 2 (student paper)
• A Windows Registry Quick-Reference, Derrick Farmer, Burlington, VT.

• The Windows Registry as a forensic resource, Digital Investigation, Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 201--205.

• Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Lih Wern Wong , School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University

• The Windows NT Registry File Format, Timothy D. Morgan

Tools

Open Source

• [2] — "small command line utility for reading and querying Windows NT-based registries."
• regviewer — a tool for looking at the registry.
• RegRipper — "the fastest, easiest, and best tool for registry analysis in forensics examinations."

Commercial

• Abexo Free Regisry Cleaner
• Auslogics Registry Defrag
• Alien Registry Viewer
• NT Registry Optimizer
• iExpert Software-Free Registry Defrag
• Registry Undelete (russian)
• Windows Registry Recovery
• Registry Tool

See Also

• Windows Incident Response Articles on Registry
• Windows Registry Information
• Wikipedia Article on Windows Registry
• Push the Red Button — Articles on Registry