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General Category => Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: Paul (Lead Developer) on February 06, 2026, 10:29:11 PM

Title: [Tip] Open RegEdit at a specific location with a hotkey
Post by: Paul (Lead Developer) on February 06, 2026, 10:29:11 PM
Did you know you can open RegEdit at a specific location with a hotkey (or other trigger)? Let's say you often like to open this Registry location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

To open RegEdit there without navigating to it manually, just use an action like this:

(Start)
HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 String: Assign "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
0002 String: Do activity from its text ""
(End)

This is because the "String: Do activity from its text" sees the "HKEY_" part and knows to open RegEdit with the full string.
Title: Re: [Tip] Open RegEdit at a specific location with a hotkey
Post by: Paul (Lead Developer) on February 19, 2026, 11:38:26 AM
Also, you can open RegEdit at any copied location by pasting it into AlomWare Toolbox's "Command box" and hitting Enter. This is much faster than launching RegEdit and browsing to the location manually. 8)

(https://www.alomware.com/images/forum/registry-from-command-box.png)