Microsoft Added An Address Bar to Registry Editor in the April 2018 Update

Microsoft Added An Address Bar to Registry Editor in the April 2018 Update

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-added-an-address-bar-to-registry-editor-in-the-april-2018-update/

The Windows Registry Editor, otherwise known as RegEdit.exe, is an important tool for power users and IT support when it comes to fixing various Windows issues, enabling features, or diagnosing problems. Navigating to a particular key, though, could sometimes be annoying as the data in the Registry is organized in a tree format and you have to expand numerous subkeys before you got to the one you were looking for.

With the release of the April 2018 Update, this has all changed as Microsoft finally introduced an address bar to the Registry Editor that you can paste a Registry key into and automatically open it. To use it, simply copy a Registry key from a web site or other location, paste it into the Registry Editor's address bar, and then press Enter. This will cause the Registry Editor to automatically traverse the path and select the particular key.