Monitor Changes In The Windows 7 Registry

July 26th, 2009 . Filed under: Tips. Tags:

Windows 7, like Vista, does not have an in-built Registry monitoring tool. But what you can do is, harness the command-line program fc.exe to compare two  registry export files. 

To use this program, first, export a .reg file, & name it as say rega.

After the change takes place export the changed .reg file & name it as say, regb.

Now, open a command prompt and type:

fc /u rega.reg regb.reg > regcompare.txt

Since .reg files use unicode, the /u switch, tells fc.exe to use Unicode.

You can now inspect the output regcompare in Notepad.

You can also try this 3rd party utility whatchanged to monitor the changes in your Windows 7 / Vista registry, easily.

whatchanged

Simply download this portable app whatchanged and run it before and after the change.  There are some more freeware tools here from its publisher.

These may also interest you:

How To Monitor Changes In The Windows Vista Registry

De-Mystifying Windows Registry, Registry Virtualization, How To Edit The Registry.

How To Back Up the Windows Registry, How To Restore the Registry, How To Maintain Windows 7 & Windows Vista Registry.

How To Restrict Access to Registry Editor, How To lock out a particular user only, from accessing regedit, How To Change Registry Key Permissions, How To Restore access of the User to the Registry.

How to open multiple instances of the registry in Windows 7 & Vista.


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