December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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15.3 Seeing What’s Being Accessed in Your Registry with Regmon
Registry access can be critical for applications, especially if you’re trying to deal with portions of the registry that have been locked down by access control lists, or if you’re dependent on a component you didn’t write. You might not have a clear picture of where registry-access attempts fail or of the reasons causing those failures.
Regmon from Sysinternals gives you a real-time view into all registry accesses, enabling you to see exactly how your software and related components are using the registry.
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Tool | Regmon (Registry Monitor) |
Version covered | 7.02 |
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Power Tools page | |
Summary | Provides a real-time display of all registry-access attempts. Highly configurable, extremely flexible, and uses the same general user interface as other great Sysinternals tools. |
License type | Freeware; can’t be redistributed without specific permission, can’t use for customer support (see web site for details) |
Online resources | Forum |
Related tools in this book | Filemon, TCPView, ProcessExplorer, Unlocker |
Getting Started
Regmon is a simple executable that you can drop into any convenient folder. It requires Load Driver and Debug privileges to execute, so you can’t run it as a basic user. Regmon runs on Win9x/Me and all x86 versions (32- and 64-bit) ...
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