Regedit Favorites
Posted on December 16th, 2008
During an average day I spend a great deal of time in the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and have done for the last 10 years or so and today I discovered a new fetaure I was completly unaware of.
The ability to add favorites to regedit
How to add a favorite:
- Browse to the relevant key
- Click Favorites Menu | Add to favorites
- Enter the name (i.e. HKLM – Run Key
- Now, wherever you are in the registry, select the favorites menu and your favorite to jump straight to that location
How simple is that!
The favorites are saved to the following location
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit\Favorites
As I move around different environments, with different profiles, I can create a quick reg file of the favorites I wan’t so on a new environment I can run the reg file before loading regedit to pre-populate these favorites.
Simple huh!
From the archives of – “well, I never knew that”
Tags: favorites, favourites, regedit, tip, well I never knew that
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Remove default favorites for IE6
Posted on August 13th, 2008
By default Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) includes some default favorites on the favorites menu. For example:
In a Cirtix environment this is not desirable and they can be removed.
Locate the following file:
- C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\SIGNUP\install.ins
Edit with notepad to view something similar to the below:
Tags: favorites, IE6, Internet Explorer
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