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    What kind of program would I need..

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by iOsiris, Dec 17, 2006.

  1. iOsiris

    iOsiris Notebook Evangelist

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    What kind of program would I need, if I wanted to keep track of all the changes made by an installer, ie: keep track of where its installing files, registry, etc. Is there such a thing?
     
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    hmm, tricky. Most installers can be started with a command line switch that forces them to use verbose mode, where everything that they do is logged somewhere. That might do the trick in some situations. Alternatively, you'd have to find something that hooks into the Windows api to monitor which functions are called and with which arguments.

    I don't know of any programs for doing this though.
     
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