Anything better then RegSnap?

[Aviator747]

RegSnap is alright. But it is bloody confusing to look at the outputed *.reg files or the *.html file. When you make a simple system change & do the compare it states there were like 100 enteries deleted, so many created & other what not.

How do you make heads or tales out of it? It's also painful to sift through other peoples reg files to find what you want. And you don't always find it.

I made a snapshot on my virtual pc & then done all the tweaks that I wanted to do. And set my pc up the way I like it & added some other tweaks from off of the web.

I ended up with a really huge & messy *.reg file. And it doesn't completely work properly.

Thanks for any help.

[bucketbuster]

Try regshot.

I've been using it for many months now and it does a great job.

[RyanVM]

I use Advanced Registry Tracer, but I'm not 100% certain it's the best program out there for that job.

[SiMoNsAyS]

Try regshot.

I've been using it for many months now and it does a great job.

i use regshot as bucketbuste, it's clean and not complex, what i only miss it's an option to convert the changes into a .reg file

[RyanVM]

Try regshot.

I've been using it for many months now and it does a great job.

i use regshot as bucketbuste, it's clean and not complex, what i only miss it's an option to convert the changes into a .reg file

That's a feature ART doesn't have either. So sad because you'd think it would be trivial for them to do that.

[CoffeeFiend]

I use RegSnap myself and I never had problems with it. The fact that it generates .reg files with more infos in it aren't the app's fault. It merely reports what has changed, if lots of extra stuff has changed other than your settings, every apps like that would do the same... It usually only takes a few seconds to sort it out with notepad (eliminate MRU's and what not). The one thing that helps is running the 2 captures as close as you can to before/after the changes you want it to register. If there's too much time in between and many apps running at the same time, lots of other things will change as well and it will make a bigger and messier .reg file.

If you want fancier than that, with exclusion lists and everything so it looks cleaner, then the big repackaging apps (adminstudio and such) do that job better... at a price.

[Aviator747]

Is it hard to manually create your own *.reg file from the snapshots that RegShot takes?

Especially if you do a lot of system wide changes?

[Alanoll]

I personally use about $200 or more of software to get my tweaks. But I"m sure all of you don't have access to that kind of software (YAY Educational Agreements from Universities)

[CoffeeFiend]

I personally use about $200 or more of software to get my tweaks. But I"m sure all of you don't have access to that kind of software (YAY Educational Agreements from Universities)

Or you do like I do, bring the odd app that's being a pain to work, and use adminstudio there (I have a license at work for it).

[RyanVM]

I personally use about $200 or more of software to get my tweaks. But I"m sure all of you don't have access to that kind of software (YAY Educational Agreements from Universities)

What software would that be?

[MCT]

yes, i would like to know aswell what u use

[Aviator747]

I want to find a fairly non painful foolproof. Well almost fullproof method of doing all my system changes via the registry.

I took a look at RegShot. It seems pretty much the same to me as RegSnap.

[Alanoll]

I use primarily what crahak uses, along side Wise Install Package. I also use AdminStudio, and InstallShield X, but X doesn't have any capture abilities, and AdminStudio's sometimes doesn't catch everything.

[CoffeeFiend]

Wise is nice too (and a bit cheaper iirc) but work will only buy me so many toys for the same job... Now I want a adminstudio 5.5 to 6 upgrade

[swampy]

Prism Deploy is excellent; it has an ini file, containing many predefined filters, where you can add any reg values, files or folders to ignore. Reg changes can be edited then exported as reg files. It can also save the reg & file changes to a silent, switchless SFX installer