RegBench is a program that lets you search for errors in every corner of the Windows Registry. You can make the platform a reference for a specific section of the Registry or for all hives at the same time. The environment calculates the following parameters: access time, time per access by key, keys in the hive, enumeration time, total bytes read, and read bytes, among other parameters.
Nowadays, CPU benchmark and hard disk benchmark utilities are plentiful. But a good registry benchmark tool is very hard to find on the Internet. For this reason, RegBench is a very useful program.
How to Use Registry Benchmark Tool for Windows
RegBench has a command line interface. You'll need to run a simple command to compare the Registry within CMD. After the comparison finishes, the platform will start scanning the registry and, when done, offer to save the results on your computer. We could end the recommendation here, but we'll show you three steps to use the tool effectively.
Step one: Download the environment and copy it to the C:/Windows folder.
Step two: Open a Command Prompt window as administrator (type CMD in the search option).
- Now you'll have to type the following command:
regbench "registry hives"
We briefly explain the code: “registry hives” is the abbreviation for the Registry section you want to explore. You can use the following names for the different registry sections:
- HKLM for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- HKCU for HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- HKCR for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
- HKCC for HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
- HKU for HKEY_USERS
- To scan a particular hive, you'll have to run the following command:
regbench.exe HKCU -output results_hkcu.xml –auto
- To scan all Registry hives, run the following command:
regbench HKLM HKCU HKCR HKCC HKU -output result2s_hkcu.xml –auto
Step three: When the scan finishes, you'll notice an XML file will be saved in a directory. You can open the file with the shown path in a web browser.
As you can see, RegBench is a very good platform to compare the Windows Registry and get a very detailed report that is very easy to understand.
