Registry Difference Tool

[SimpleSi]

I was recently trying to automate the deployment settings of a printer by setting up one and working out the difference in the registry by doing a before and after whole registry export and using Notepad++ to find the differences.

 

Is there a free tool that could make this process a bit easier?

 

regards

 

Simon

[powdarrmonkey]

Export the branch you're interested in (or the whole thing), make your changes, export again and compare the two with a diff program like GNU diff.

 

Make sure you export in the right format: Track Changes to the Windows Registry

 

 

Edit: oh, wait, you already do this. sorry.

[SimpleSi]

Sorry - should have mentioned that notepad++ has a file compare function built into it - I was just wondering if their was an automagical free tool

 

 

 

regards

 

Simon

[mac_shinobi]

Software deployment, patch and asset management, security policy management and remote equipment monitoring

 

prism deploy

[K.C.Leblanc]

RegShot

 

It's between Rump Steak and Keith Allen on my list of wonderful things.

[OutToLunch]

+1 for Regshot, great little tool.

[ricki]

HI

 

Regmon might be the way to go. Start the program and make the changes and stop the program and see whats been done.

 

Richard

[SimpleSi]

Regshot would be the bees-knees if it supplied a ready to run .reg - but at least it finds the diffs very quickly.

 

(start to estimate time to write a program to convert regshot output to .reg file vs number of times I'd use it )

 

Simon

[OutToLunch]

Lots of shareware out there in the $15-$40 range that will spit out nice .reg files - is the time it'd take you to write it worth more than that?

 

If you don't mind an extra step, there is a tool for Regmon which will take the log files it generates and convert/process them into a .reg file It supports filtering by the processes and keys you want monitoring so you can try and cut down on a lot of the junk you normally pick up in a scan like this.

 

[Tool] RegmonToRegfile - Record and playback registry changes - Jon Galloway

Edited September 28, 2009 by OutToLunch