Registry Monitoring, what's best?

[Barry]

I searched and found a thread about Registry Snapshots, but not real time registry monitoring under WinXP!

I use Regmon, but does it capture ALL activity from any dll's, ocx files etc, from the program you want to monitor?

I've installed a Macromedia projector prog but can't find where it stored the reg number using Regmon, tried Filemon to see if it was in a file, again no dice! This prog creates many temp files in my temp folder, but regmon/filemon never reports any of them are running, just the main app used to launch the prog.

I've also tried Active Registry Monitor to compare snapshots and a prog called MultiMon, but it kept giving Monitor failed error and never showed anything? Neither found where the reg number was being stored

Any suggestions (other than use Google you moron ) for an in depth registry monitor?

[DARKER]

The best one is by me Regmon (Good work Mark). But when you want use it in "Real world" i recommende change the window name and others things that can't be detected by other progies :-)

[Barry]

I remember a patch for an earlier version of Regmon/Filemon, but it's not been updated for newer versions!

I managed to sort it out eventually. Have Win98 on another partition, so booted it up, ran Active Registry Monitor before/after installing the prog and it found the reg key I was looking for

Would still like to see it 'real time' though!

[bilbo]

I suggest you REGSHOT: less than 50 KB!

It simply do snapshots before and after installations, and then compares the two. It cannot be defeated. It does not need installation. It can do the same job to monitor directories...

Small is beautiful
bilbo

[Barry]

Thanks bilbo, just tried Regshot, does the job too! It's not as polished as Active Registry Monitor but for 43kb it's not surprising

Another tool for the collection!

[Barry]

Regshot runs under WinXP for me so can't see why it won't run under 2000!

Here's a link to it:

http://k3nny.wz.cz/regshot.1.7.2.zip

System Mechanic also has a good one included. I have used it for years.
They call it Safe Installer. Shows before and after for your whole system.