If you've ever used the Sysinternals REGJUMP you will have noticed it lanuches RegEdit - and THEN navigates to the correct Key. I have a question? What stops them from using the Microsoft allocated Value to store the start Key in? Answer: Nothing.

Save as REGJUMP.CMD:

@ECHO OFF
IF NOT "%1"=="" GOTO NEXT
ECHO Launches Regedit to specified key.
ECHO.
ECHO REGJUMP key
ECHO.
ECHO  key		  Specifies the registry key to go to.
ECHO.
ECHO  Example:
ECHO  REGJUMP HKCR\pngfile\DefaultIcon
ECHO.
ECHO Known limitations: Key name cannot contain certain characters.
ECHO REGJUMP is Freeware, (c) 2006 Plamdi.com.
GOTO END
:NEXT
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SET K=%*
IF NOT %1==%~1 SET K=%~1
IF %K:~0,4%==HKLM SET K=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE%K:~4%
IF %K:~0,4%==HKCU SET K=HKEY_CURRENT_USER%K:~4%
IF %K:~0,4%==HKCR SET K=HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT%K:~4%
IF %K:~0,4%==HKCC SET K=HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG%K:~4%
IF %K:~0,3%==HKU SET K=HKEY_USERS%K:~3%
REG QUERY "%K%">NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO END
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit" /V "LastKey" /D "My Computer\%K%" /F
"%SYSTEMROOT%\REGEDIT.EXE"
:END
SETLOCAL DISABLEEXTENSIONS

And yeah, I'll probably make a better compiled .EXE version written in C++ ... but until then this should do. Launches Regedit AT the required key.

Another interesting fact is that my version does not launch RegEdit if the Key does not exisit.

Edited November 1, 200619 yr by Plamdi

Have you checked out either of the following sites?

These give you the ability to jump to Registry Keys..

Registry Commander: http://www.aezay.dk/ (CTRL+G to invoke the Go to)

Registry Editor Extensions: http://www.regeditx.com/ (paste right in the top line)

Thanks,

Kent

or if you want small and simple Jump2Reg http://maxxpsoft.com/3.html , even the HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21 keys

Here is a compiled version written using AutoIt...

http://plamdi.com/files/reg_jump.exe