Tracking Changes to a Windows System?

Posted by Cliff on Monday April 12, 2004 @09:30AM 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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What the hell were you doing? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-12 09:43 · Score: -1, Troll

If they installed Kazaa, Bonzi Buddy, etc, it's because they wanted to have it. Who the hell do you take yourself for, undoing what they did? *YOU* are annoying, not those softwares.
1. Re:What the hell were you doing? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-12 12:08 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Bullshit! This guy should have got +5 insightful. It's true: if they installed it it's because they wanted to have it. How hard is that to understand?