Comments on: Finding Registry Keys the Easy Way in Vista or XP

By: J DOUGHTY

J DOUGHTY — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:27:46 +0000

I have a compaq pesario pc SR5030NX running vista basic and upgraded it to vista ultimate and windows update on 8-20-09 made my cd/dvdw drive not found in the registry there is no value listed for the drive and it looks like other registry keys are missing how can i fix this problem
Thank You

By: ivan

ivan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:26:12 +0000

my son forgot his password for vista, there is no guest account i have a program but it’s asking me for the path to the registry directory,
can you help
or suggest another program.

By: R Williams

R Williams — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:35:39 +0000

When I try to install some new programs I get this

error message: Please set registry key
HKLM\software\Microsoft\.NET Framework\
install Root to point to the .NET Framework

install location.

Can someone tell me how to do this? Please?

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:01:54 +0000

You can create a regedit.exe shortcut in IE Favorits folder. Go to: C:\WINDOWS\ regedit.exe, right click on regedit.exe and choose “Copy”, then go to IE Favorites folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites\ , right click and choose “Paste Shortcut” and a shortcut will be placed in Favorites to open regedit.exe in IE just as you open any other file in IE or go to some or other Webpage.
Thanks.

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:56:12 +0000

You can create a regedit.exe shortcut in your IE Favorites folder. Go to: C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe, right click on regedit.exe and choose “Copy”, then go to IE Favorites folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites\, right click and choose “Paste Shortcut” and a shortcut to regedit.exe will be placed in Favorites to open regedit.exe in IE just as you open any other file in IE or go to some or other Webpage.
Thanks.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:58:45 +0000

And one for Firefox :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4478

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:44:57 +0000

Here’s a nice little IE addon for opening Registry entries found on web pages like the one at the top of this page.

Find it here: http://www.petri.co.il/open_in_regedit_in_ie.htm

By: The Geek

The Geek — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:34:49 +0000

Excellent suggestion, I completely forgot to include it!

Which is why I’m thankful for our great readers =)

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:00:53 +0000

Also try RegJump.exe from SysInternals which pulls the reg path from the command line rather than the clipboard. I keep this in a tools folder that is always part of my %PATH% so I can quickly jump to any reg key from the command line:

http://www.microsoft.com/techn.....gjump.mspx