Jump To Key

Apart from the tons of lines of code behind the well-functioning of Windows, there are also various registry keys. What’s more, programs you install need to integrate themselves in these registries, with the possibility to also perform various tweaks. Although pretty organized, it can be pretty difficult to navigate to specific locations, unless using specialized applications like Jump To Key.

One advantage you notice even before the start is that you don’t even have to go through a setup process for the application to run. This development method allows you to store it on an USB flash drive and use on other computers as well, without affecting the target system integrity, since registries don’t need to be modified.

All features are stored in a pretty compact main window, with polished elements held inside the window frame. The application’s name speaks for itself, and if it doesn’t quite convince you, testing it out surely does. Effort on your behalf only narrows down to writing down the target path, or pasting from clipboard.

Don’t get confused, because looking for a specific key or string isn’t what the application is meant to do, so you need to write down a full, valid path for things to work fine. In case you’re following a guide on different tweaks, the full address is probably already provided so you can copy it.

Unfortunately, the application doesn’t keep a record of visited locations, so each time you want to access it again, you either manually navigate, or take the time to find the path of interest and paste it again. What’s more, it doesn’t run at startup, and nor is there a default method to do so, and the same can be said about trigger options, lacking support for hotkeys.

On an ending note, Jump To Key is a straightforward application with the sole purpose of taking you to a specific location of interest in the registry system. Every change or operation you need to perform in registries needs to be done in the Windows default edit tool, because this application hardly does anything to stand out from the crowd.