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A tool to track the actions of an app installer? (Win)

I need to find out all the actions of the file system and registry that the installer of an application performs. Is there a software tool for this?

The OS is Windows XP, if that matters.

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Take a look at Windows SysInternals Utilities.



In particular RegMon and FileMon

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I'm not sure about tracking filesystem changes, but you can export the Windows Registry as text before and after installation and then use the diff tool to see what has changed. There is O'Reilly the trickster here.



You could do the same with DIR / S in the root directory of your disk, although that would be quite time consuming.

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Why not use one of these "uninstaller programs"?

Total Uninstall is the first thing that comes to mind, although there are actually a lot of them.

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This site contains a list of some of the installer monitors.

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