We install many security tools from antivirus to password manager. In this list I have two small free utilities that would come in handy to monitor Windows Registry. Windows doesn’t provide any Registry monitoring tool natively. So, we have to search for good tools.
After looking into some old forums and my own small software database I could find two tools which are good enough to monitor Windows Registry. Needless to say, you can install any one to monitor Registry.
1. Process Monitor: This advanced tool is from Microsoft. Process Monitor is a free tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It has some cool features, they are:
* Monitoring of process and thread startup and exit, including exit status codes
* Monitoring of image (DLL and kernel-mode device driver) loads
* More data captured for operation input and output parameters
* Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing data
* Capture of thread stacks for each operation make it possible in many cases to identify the root cause of an operation
* Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user and session ID
* Configurable and moveable columns for any event property
* Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns
* Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of log data
* Process tree tool shows relationship of all processes referenced in a trace
* Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance
* Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information
* Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn’t fit in the column
* Cancellable search
* Boot time logging of all operations
* Monitoring of process and thread startup and exit, including exit status codes
* Monitoring of image (DLL and kernel-mode device driver) loads
* More data captured for operation input and output parameters
* Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing data
* Capture of thread stacks for each operation make it possible in many cases to identify the root cause of an operation
* Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user and session ID
* Configurable and moveable columns for any event property
* Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns
* Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of log data
* Process tree tool shows relationship of all processes referenced in a trace
* Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance
* Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information
* Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn’t fit in the column
* Cancellable search
* Boot time logging of all operations
The installer is just 1.2MB in size and can be downloaded from below source.
|Download Process Monitor|
|Download Process Monitor|
2. RegShot: This is another cool free too for Windows which takes the snapshot of Windows Registry and then compares it with a second one. The report can be produced in text or HTML format for further reference. And report also contains a list of all modifications that have taken place between snaphot1 and 2.
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