How to search for a pattern string in entire registry and delete all the keys and subkeys that contain the pattern (C# or VB)?

I want to search for a pattern string in the entire registry and need to delete all the keys and sub-keys that contain the pattern. How can I implement this in VB Script or C#? Appreciate if you can give some sample examples. Now every time, I am manually
searching for the pattern in registry and deleting one by one.
Thanks Prasad

There is no built in way to do this. You'll end up having to enumerate all keys and values in the entire registry and comparing each one for a pattern using Regex or similar.  This is going to be really slow but there isn't much else you can do about
it (other than parallelize the enumeration).  Also note that you won't have permissions to all keys for read and/or write access so you'll need to skip over those using exception handling.
Michael Taylor
http://blogs.msmvps.com/p3net

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