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Regjump to Registry Path

Regjump takes a registry path and makes Regedit open to that path

Registry editor (regedit.exe) is known not to be particularly comfortable, but the Registy Jump utility offers simplification. Microsoft has made hardly any changes to the now old-fashioned windows tool in recent years.

In addition to the search function, the Registry Editor does not offer a direct way to jump to a specific key in a path, which is especially annoying if you have to hail through a particularly long registry key.

However, the Regjump utility jump to a specified registry path. Microsoft offers from the Sysinternals collection a free tool called Regjump, which can be downloaded here.

Regjump Path

The small command line applet takes a registry path and opens Regedit for that path. It accepts root keys in the standard form such as: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and in short form with HKLM.

Regjump v1.1
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usage: regjump <<path>|-c>
  -c Copy path from clipboard.
e.g.: regjump HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindows

jump to Registry Path

Particularly helpful is to paste a key path from the clipboard with the option -c (Copy path from clipboard).

Regjump to Registry Path

Regjump takes the registry path and opens Regedit to the path

Conclusion

Most Windows users have dealt with the Windows Registry at some point. Endless possibilities are available to the Windows administrator to adapt the Windows system to the needs by making certain changes in the Windows registry. Unfortunately, the registry editor (regedit.exe) is not particularly user-friendly and unfortunately Microsoft has hardly changed anything in the somewhat dusty editor in recent years.

Open Windows Terminal as an administrator

Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 is out with an updated settings UI design, a new “elevate” profile they allow running as administrator and setting with revamped text rendering engine.

Unlike the traditional console, Windows Terminal runs the various command lines in tabs, with each shell configured through its own profile.

In Windows Terminal, you can now configure the elevation of privileges for individual or all shells. However, some peculiarities await us.

The settings of a profile now include the option to start the shell in question with elevated privileges. By default, however, Windows Terminal opens all automatically set up profiles in the context of the currently logged in account.

Configure Windows Terminal Profile as Administrator

To configure a shell for administrative requirements, you can use the function to duplicate existing profiles. To do this, open the settings and use the Add New Profile command.

Windows Terminal Add a new profile

In the following dialog, an existing profile can be selected to be copied, then click on Duplicate. The settings of this new profile open and you can change its name and activate the option Run this profile as administrator .

Windows Terminal Run this profile as an administrator

This new profile appears immediately after saving in the drop-down list and can be started directly here. As expected, the authentication dialog appears under an administrative account.

Terminal User Account Control Dialog

After successful login, the command line terminal does not open in a new tab, but in its own window. This is because the “elevated” terminal profile is started as a child process by Windows Terminal.

Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and later as a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL, SSH, and Azure Cloud Shell Connector. Windows Terminal comes with its own rendering back-end; starting with version 1.11 on Windows 11, command-line apps can run using this newer back-end instead of the old Windows Console.

Run Windows Terminal as an administrator

Since Windows 11 22H2 and Windows Terminal 1.15, Windows Terminal replaces Windows Console as the default.