How do I monitor what changes in my registry?

[JMH]

Monitoring what happens in the registry can sometimes be a very useful thing.

I think that in general you'll be very surprised at how much activity happens in the registry, particularly for an install.

There are a couple of ways to do what you're suggesting: comparing before and after snapshots of the registry, and monitoring the changes as they happen.

I'll discuss both.

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_monitor_what_changes_in_my_registry.html

 

[AceInfinity]

There's also a program called RegShot, but i'm also in development of a program like this. However i'm thinking on giving mine the ability to create .reg files to revert back to any previous "states" of the registry.

Older screenshot:

 

[jcgriff2]

See Registry/ HDD activity live with ProcMon -

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645