COM Registry Browser0.9.0.1 Beta

Designed for software developers and other expert PC users, COM Registry Browser enables you to analyze your COM registry entries and remove the invalid ones to restore stability to your computer.

Installer, prerequisites, and interface

The setup operation is quick and effortless, since there are no special options or third-party components involved. However, you must have .NET Framework installed.As far as the interface is concerned, COM Registry Browser adopts a large window with three panes that display the COM servers, interfaces and type libraries separately. Depending on your computer's architecture type, the app can be asked to load Registry32 or Registry64.

Analyze and unregister registry entries

It doesn't take long to load all information. You can check out the GUID, name, threading model, program ID, full path, filename, assembly and version independent program ID of each library, as well as select one or more entries to unregister at the same time via the right-click menu.The utility brings up another window on the screen which shows the name and GUID of the selected entries and asks for confirmation for elimination.There are no other notable options available. It doesn't implement options for copying registry entry details to the Clipboard, exporting them to file, or printing them for closer examination. Moreover, it cannot register previously unregistered entries.

Evaluation and conclusion

It used a low system resources tests, so it didn't hamper the computer's performance. However, we had to quickly switch to Registry64 display mode from the Registry32 default on 64-bit Windows to prevent COM Registry Browser from crashing.On top of that, it crashed several times when we attempted to unregister entries (right after confirmation). We must also take into account that it hasn't been updated for a long time and remained in beta development, so these kind of issues are likely to occur. However, they cannot be overlooked.