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israily
03-10-1999, 01:34 AM
I am looking for a tool that will take a snapshot of the registry on a clean machine and after I do an installation, take a new snapshot and will extract the differences to an ascii file? Is there such a tool? Thank you . By the way I did export the whole clean registry to a reg file and then exported the whole registry after installation to another file; did a windiff, but no way to extract the differences to a file?

Israily@hotmail.com
Anonymous
03-10-1999, 11:40 PM
Use sysdif util from resource kit
Jason Trible
03-11-1999, 08:17 PM
This may sound silly, but I just used the "Track Changes" option from the "Tools" menu of Word 97. Load up the modified reg file, do a "track changes" on the original reg file, and poof. New stuff will be in red and underlined, stuff that was removed will be in red and be crossed out. You can use the "Accept or Reject Changes" to jump to the next section of the document that has changes in it.
Simon Clausen
03-19-1999, 12:17 AM
I personally use the DOS file compare program. Just export a copy of the registry before the installation, and a copy after, then run FC at the command prompt on the two files. i.e.

FC before.reg after.reg >diff.txt

Open diff.txt in a text editor and you're set.

Simon Clausen
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johnson
03-23-1999, 08:23 AM
There is a solution that I've used before. Good old DOS. Export the registry to the .reg files, first.reg and second.reg. Go to the DOS prompt and type fc first.reg second.reg > solution.txt. Open solution.txt in note pad and you would see all the differences. However, if you do the entire registry, you would never be able to compare it if you made major changes before exporting the second time. In my situation, I only exported a little section of the registry that was related to my problem.
Anonymous
03-24-1999, 11:14 PM
Get EasyClean from http://www.bkedv.de/. You can restore every bit of registry, remove installed files and restore ini entries.

It's the most complete uninstaller I've ever used, and it beats CleanSweep 4.x, Norton Uninstaller and other commercial uninstallers flat!