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There should be an option in Registry to Find a Key Forward & Backward.
Remember, Notepad's Find command. You can find a string next or back to
cursor position.

This is because, sometimes quickly searching for a Registry Key, we by
mistake jump to next key and there is no option to move back and we have to
search the entire registry again.

This little option can save a lot of time.

Please don't suggest other Registry Editor's. I am talking about the inbuilt
feature of Windows.

Comments will highly be appreciated.

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Great idea! And while they're at it, hopefully they'll remove the memory of
what key you had open last. I hate having to close the tree every time I
start Regedit before I can look for what I want the next time. I can't
imagine that users actually asked for that feature.

Dale
 
I think remembering the last used Registry Key is a good feature but not for
everyone. In my case, if I like to refine the search from top then I just
press Home key and then F3. To close the tree, I press Left Arrow Key on the
Expanded one.

I will also like to know you view on my perious suggestion "Serial Key
Shortcut". Search it and let me know your views.
 
I think remembering the last used Registry Key is a good feature but not for
everyone. In my case, if I like to refine the search from top then I just
press Home key and then F3. To close the tree, I press Left Arrow Key on the
Expanded one.

You can always just change the permissions on the key where it remembers
the last key so it can't do that behavior.
 
Good idea! I have always just deleted the key in my logon/logoff scripts
but with my way, it only forgets where you were on a reboot.

Thanks for the tip.

Dale
 
So, you're to blame, huh? LOL

Richard G. Harper said:
I did, thank you very much. ;-)

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Dale said:
Great idea! And while they're at it, hopefully they'll remove the memory
of what key you had open last. I hate having to close the tree every
time I start Regedit before I can look for what I want the next time. I
can't imagine that users actually asked for that feature.
 
Dale said:
Do what? There were a few things mentioned in this thread.

Oops, I trimmed the wrong part of the post.

Should have been:
You can always just change the permissions on the key where it remembers
the last key so it can't do that behavior.

How do you do this?

ss.
 
In Regedit, browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit.

First, delete all of the values on the right after you click the Regedit
folder. Then right click on the Regedit folder and select Permissions.
Modify the permissions all the accounts, including System, have only Read
permission.

That should do it.

Dale
 
Dale said:
In Regedit, browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit.

First, delete all of the values on the right after you click the Regedit
folder. Then right click on the Regedit folder and select Permissions.
Modify the permissions all the accounts, including System, have only Read
permission.


Ah, thanks. That's useful as all those open branches always annoy me. Any
strings that I want to get back to would be saves as Favourites.

Cheers

ss.
 
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