How to convert registry values to text?

[Wooops]

This is the situation, I lost around 100 "random" folders inside a root directory. Part of it is backed up, but half of it is not. Now I have registry backup of the shellnoroam info of the root directory from the day before. The question is how can I convert the registry values into text so that I can get a list of the folders in the root directory & re-download the missing ones?

There seems to be a way, but I'm not familiar with scripting so... I don't know how to use it.. help is appreciated

Here it is what I found on google:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/349410/how-can-i-convert-a-reg-binary-value-from-the-registry-into-a-string-vb-net
http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=86888

[Raymond]

Found a tool that converts hex binary to text.
http://thesite5.weebly.com/hex2text.html

You'll need to run the tool in command prompt specifying the file containing binary that you want to read and the output file.

[Wooops]

It keeps giving me an error upon execution. Is it just me?
I tried in win xp and 7

Exception Information
Code: 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x00000000 Record: 0x0000000000000000 Address: 0x0000000000142457 System Information Windows NT 5.1 Build: 2600 CPU Vendor Code: 68747541 - 69746E65 - 444D4163 CPU Version: 00100F63 CPU Feature Code: 178BFBFF CPU AMD Feature Code: EFD3FBFF Module 1 hex2text.exe Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x00000000 Checksum: 0x00000000 Time Stamp: 0x4e41de29 Version Information

Thanks Raymond!

[Raymond]

Works fine on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.
Will try on 64bit later.

---------- Post added at 03:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:51 PM ----------

Just tried on my 64bit Windows 7 Ultimate with UAC enabled, also no problem.
If the registry file is not too big, you can upload it to mediafire or anywhere so I can download and convert it for you.

[Wooops]

Tried again with no luck.. The registry file is small, about 400KB. IMHO the info may be in the "ItemPos1152x864(1)" value, though I will send the whole registry file via PM just in case.
Thanks again Raymond!

Edit: just discovered what was the problem, the filenames can't contain spaces (using ""). Though the result looks unreadable via notepad or wordpad. Since I can't seem to copy paste it, I attached an image with a part of the result in wordpad.

[Raymond]

I am not able to download the torrent that you sent me via PM.
Please ZIP it so that the file becomes smaller, then upload it to mediafire and PM me the download link.

[Wooops]

I guess it makes sense to post the solution here as well.
The free app RegAlyzer manages to read the binary values as text (though it can't seem to be able to export it), but still does the job.

[Raymond]

I did try RegAnalyzer at first but it is not possible to import/read an external .reg file right?
It can only read the registry on your computer.

But that works too because you can import the .reg to your computer and use RegAnalyzer to read it.

[Wooops]

hum well I can read an external registry file with file> open registry file. Maybe its not the latest version? I ran 1.5.8.10 but there's a newer one 1.6.2.16 release. There's another option though that I haven't tried >open registry file (difference only), I tried it but I'm not sure what the difference is...

"But that works too because you can import the .reg to your computer and use RegAnalyzer to read it. "
Yeah. Maybe a bit off-topic or totally, but that gave me the idea to compare my registry backup reg file with the actual registry, and maybe then open only the difference with RegAlyzer and know exactly what folders are missing.