check out trackwininstall

[DLSS]

its a tool i find verry usefull .

its meant to check wot a install really does ,

it actually works verry simple , it takes a image of the registry and certain directory's etc , then lets u install wotever u want to install , then it takes another image of the previous mentioned and compares the 2.

there are a lot of flavours of the prog included , x32 bit , x64 bit , and console versions of the previous one's (looks like thoe are commandline based)

i put the hel/information file of the normal one up on my site so u cna check it out ->http://www.dlss.be/TrackWinstallE.chm

i read about it in a article in a dutch computer magazine (the best and most interesting i can find till now ) c't magazine. and is developed by one of the people of their german redaction (<- i kno i screwed tht word up but cba to look up the correct one) this mag is being distributed both in dutch and german so the help files are both in german as in english (dont ask me why it aint dutch ...)

u can get the proggy @ ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/trackwinstall_1_0.zip