XYplorer Beta Club
Editing the Windows registry is as simple as pressing Win+R and typing "regedit" (or using the Ctrl+G equivalent
), and navigating to our key of choice is as simple as following the paths (which look like "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\" etc.) we read from a website or wherever.What if we could immediately parse such addresses and point regedit to them in one command? That's where Regjump from Mark Russinovich's Sysinternals Suite comes in handy. It's a handy command-line tool which takes a registry address as an argument and takes us there with regedit.
One could of course move it to the Windows folder, and still call it from the command-line/run menu (or use the full path to it all the time), just pasting the registry path needed. We love our GUIs though, and I thought making use of it through a custom button would be a nice efficiency boost (sounds better as a browser plug-in idea though).
This small script may be a little clueless and not super-well written (and I'd appreciate any criticism and tips), but it gets the job done. Uses (creates) an .ini file, "regjump.ini" to store settings. Either prompts to enter a path or directly uses the clipboard (add fromclipboard=1 to the .ini file).
Regjump already converts some abbreviations to full names, like HKLM becomes HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, but I already think of some new improvements to add through the script- "arguments" of some kind to add before pasting the address in input mode, parsing alternatively spellt addresses ("HKLM>Software>Microsoft> or "HKLM \ Software\ Microsoft \") seem to be a good start.
(e: I said it gets the job done, but it would be cool to know if it simply works- I didn't have anyone at hand to test it!)
Regjump itself: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... s/bb963880
