Ever have to move a program folder after an install then try to update the registry so that everything still worked correctly?  Or how about simply having to make the same changes to a whole bunch of text strings in the registry manually? I recently had to do the former, a program installer wanted to put the program folder into C:\, but I prefer to have my programs in C:\Program Files – thanks. Some programs require a path without spaces (therefore, it helps to put them in the root folder), but others are just so old that they install to C:\ by default. Moving the program folder from C:\ to C:\Program Files works to move the files, but the registry keys will continue to point to a folder in the root directory (and of course will prevent your programs from completely working).

To fix this you have to get adventurous and make edits to the registry. I found a solution to the slow process that is normally a standard part of finding and editing these entries. The program is called Registry Replace by Absolute Impulse. It allows you to do search and destroy string replacements similar to those you can perform with a standard text editor.

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