25th July 2000

Coming from the "You Look Different" department, Lockergnomaster Van Stanley has a handy way of tracking footprints. Before anything new is run on his system, he opens Regedit, selects 'Export Registry File' from the 'Registry' menu, and names the file "BEFORE.REG" (without the quotes). After the software installation routine has finished, he again opens the registry editor and exports a file named "AFTER.REG" (without the quotes). Either at the command prompt or in the Run command applet, he enters: "fc before.reg after.reg > changes.txt" (sans quotation marks). FC is an old DOS app that works just as well in Windows; he's redirecting the comparison into a CHANGES.TXT file.