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Tracking Changes to a Windows System?

Posted by Cliff on from the following-your-registry dept.

The Watcher asks: "I was at my parents house over the weekend trying to remove various adware/spyware/annoying software, things like Kazaa, Bonzi Buddy, etc.. During this I thought it would be helpful to know things like exactly what files/folders were created/modified and what registry entries were created/modified by an installer program so that I would not have to rely on the supplied uninstaller that only removes a selected subset of what was installed. So what are some preferred utilities out there that work well for this purpose?"

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  1. Just liberate them to Linux already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Modern Linux distributions such as Mandrake are easy enough to use, and you can run Windows software in a sandbox such as Wmware or Bochs! Not that you need to of course, Mandrake comes with all the apps you need, over 5000 packages!

    1. Re:Just liberate them to Linux already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      all the apps you need, over 5000 packages!

      You see an ad in the newspaper: "Rich guy looking for cute blonde woman". You phone him and tell him your dick is 15' long...

      Get it? Who cares about big numbers if that's not what you're looking for?