Does anyone know of a utility that can compare two registries? Really I would want to make a change on a machine and see what was changed in the registry, a before and after.
NT has a built in util called FC.EXE which can be used to compare two files.
1) Export the registry to a file
2) Make the change
3) Export the registry to another file with a different name
4) from a command prompt run "fc /n /u file1.reg file2.reg"
This will list the differences in the two files with the corresponding line numbers.
download regmon.exe from the sysinternals.com web site.
Configure it with a filter to monitor the process which is changing the registry and it will show you all reads & writes to the registry.
This software in combination with filemon.exe have proved to be invaluable to us for troubleshooting purposes.
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