RegPad is a gui based .reg file editor and viewer.
Features include fast, cancellable (via ESC key,) .reg file loading (via .reg file assocation, command line parameter, file manager drag-n-drop, or menu item selection), registry importing (0.1.1 will optionally import sub-keys as well as values,) exporting to a registry "sandbox" or saving to a file, an optional tabbed interface, an optional browser-like interface, several types of value views (Details, Icons, List, Small icons, and Tiles, as non-grouped, Key/Value grouped, or Sections grouped), drag-n-drop (cut or copy) of keys and values (across open files via the tab bar,) several types of tool bars (menu, standard, data, favorites, and tools,) a modifiable favorites and tools lists.
The user interface icons and menu text strings are also completely configurable. The icons are loaded from a user-specified directory. The menu text strings are loaded from the apps .ini file. Comments in the .ini explain what sections are used for what menu, whats configurable and whats not.
Although there is no feature to directly merge an opened files contents with the registry, it is easy enough for you to configure your own tool menu item to have RegEdit merge the saved file for you. This feature will eventually become a part of RegPad but not until it has been tested more thoroughly and more bugs have been squashed.
RegPad is currently on hold due to the lack of interest by its original designer. If youre interested in seeing the app evolve and are willing to participate in testing, please feel free to send me an email. Or if youd just like to report a repeatable bug that you found.
RegPad has been tested on 2K and XP and is still a work-in-progress, so is certain to contain bugs. But thanks to Bernhard Schtz, a number of bugs have already been eliminated.
No registry entries are made (unless you export to the registry sandbox,) so just delete the RegPad main directory to un-install.