How do I go to a certain directory in regedit?[SOLVED]

[Xavia]

I need to go to this directory in regedit

Edited May 15, 2015 by Xavia

[SadBunny]

What do you mean by "go into a directory"? Do you mean automating the registry editor to browse to that directory (hopefully not), or do you mean peeking/poking keys/values in that directory? If the latter, try RegRead(), RegEdit(), RegDelete() etc.. They have good helpfiles and working examples.

Note that you'll most probably need to add #RequireAdmin to the top of your script to elevate to admin privileges, otherwise Windows won't let you mess with the registry

Edited May 14, 2015 by SadBunny
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[Xavia]

I wanted for my script to go to:

conputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\McAfee SiteAdvisor Service

but since Mcafee wont be constant, I plan to store a variable in a notepad and read it, so what will happen is

conputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\$Variable

[Chimaera]

If you mean open regedit at a specific key?

Regedit itself is difficult to automate
but you can change the last page it viewed and use something like this vbs script

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit\Lastkey","HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Test","REG_SZ"
WshShell.Run "regedit", 1,True
Set WshShell = Nothing

just save it as regchange,vbs and it should work, there are versions on the AutoIt forum but i had trouble getting them to work
Just change the bit in blue before you save it to your key

Edited May 14, 2015 by Chimaera

[MilesAhead]

See RegJump free utility

[Xavia]

I have Found a solution for this