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Regedit crashes during registry searches
When I run a regedit search I am guaranteed that regedit will get stuck every single time while displaying the "Searching the registry" message box. When I eventually click the cancel button, I get the message that regedit has stopped working. I can repeat ad-nauseum, even after a clean re-boot.
I have read on the web that this is not that uncommon and that it might be caused by registry keys that are longer than 255 characters. This causes regedit to get stuck as it cannot read longer keys.
Is there a easy fix for this, why has it happened and how can I go about identifying which key/keys are longer than the 255 character maximum?