Installation Monitor Tool.

[Yves Leclerc]

Norton CleanSweep, part of Norton SystemWorks.

Monitors any installation of software and builds its own add/remove
database.

Y.

 

[Amy]

Hi all,

Windows 2000 resource kit had a lovely little free command line tool called
'instaler'.
It would record a log of all file and registry access of any setup program
you ran with it.

Unfortunatly, It doesn't seem to work with Windows XP and I couldn't find an
alternative tool that does.

Does anyone know of any MS or 3rd party tool that can do the job?

Thanks,

Amy

 

[Amy]

HI Yves,

Thanks for your response.
I have tried the Norton System Works and really didn't like it.
I found NSW to be too much of a resource consumer and couldn't get NCS to
work properly without changing too many configuration options. Even then it
never worked flawlessly.
The thing is I don't need any of the extra feaures. I just need a small
logging tool like instaler, preferably a command prompt tool.
All I want it to keep a textual log of all the changes that were made to the
registry or any file by an installation program.

Amy

 

[Sarge]

Hi all,

Windows 2000 resource kit had a lovely little free command line tool
called 'instaler'.
It would record a log of all file and registry access of any setup
program you ran with it.

Unfortunatly, It doesn't seem to work with Windows XP and I couldn't
find an alternative tool that does.

Does anyone know of any MS or 3rd party tool that can do the job?

It's not a command line tool, but Total Uninstall works fine and it's free:

http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/projects/projects.html