Sysinternals Regjump integration
Posted: 14 Mar 2013 18:20
Hi there.
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
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
