RegistryChangesView

More often than not, installing apps onto your computer also means additional files and registry entries to the system. Unfortunately, removing the program is not always a smooth process and, most commonly, it means many leftovers files and junk.

RegistryChangesView is a lightweight utility that permits you to view modifications made at the registry level following a comparison of system snapshots.

Upon launch, the application prompts you to specify the two registry data sources that you would like to use for the comparison. Alternatively, you can create a snapshot just before you are about to install a new program or make a change that you suspect has a more or less impact on your current configuration.

The data is skillfully displayed as a list that you can make more suitable for reading by highlighting the even and odd rows for instance. The information displayed includes the type of change made, value name, data and type, what the value data changed to along with the number of modifications made to the key.

It is worth mentioning that the utility permits you to create REG files from the data displayed. The option that can come in handy when you want to change the configuration from the GUI, but are uncertain about how to do it in Registry directly, for instance.

Moreover, you can open the registry key you are analyzing in RegEdit directly so that you can take the appropriate actions. It is not very difficult to find the registry keys that are altered during your previous operations.

Last, but not least important, since the app creates snapshots of the current configuration similarly to ShadowCopy, you can consider using it to backup your registry.

Whether you want to see the changes made by a new app you installed recently, do not know how to make a modification in the registry directly or you need an easy way to backup the hive files, RegistryChangesView is a tiny tool that simplifies the way you handle the registry keys.