Tip, Verifying Windows Box state, before and after installing a software

Monitor an Install Program Without Using Any (Expensive) Tools

Finding out what files have been copied/updated by another install program is very easy when you know how.

   1. First of all, take a 'clean' machine, i.e. one that has only got an operating system on it.

   2. Make a dump of the file list.  This can be done by typing
      DIR c:\*.* /s/one >c:\before.txt
   3. Open REGEDIT.EXE and go to Registry->Export Registry File and save the registry as   c:\before.reg
   4. Install the product that you want to monitor

   5. Make another dump of the file list by typing
      DIR c:\*.* /s/one >c:\after.txt

   6. Open REGEDIT.EXE and go to Registry->Export Registry File, as before, and save the registry as c:\after.reg

You now have all the information required to find out everything about the program that you installed 
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