How to launch Windows' RegEdit with certain path?

Question

How do I launch Windows\' RegEdit with certain path located, like \"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\8.0\", so I don\'t have to do the clic

Answer 1

You can make it appear like regedit does this behaviour by creating a batch file (from the submissions already given) but call it regedit.bat and put it in the C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder. (you may want it to skip editting the lastkey in the registry if no command line args are given, so "regedit" on its own works as regedit always did) Then "regedit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0" will do what you want.

This uses the fact that the order in PATH is usually C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem; etc