Complete uninstall and log for a application?

[qmrneo]

Don't know how it will sound but I need a windows application that can track each action while a setup is installing on the machine. Where it is placing and modifying the registry location and keeping the keys. And then give a log file when the installation is done.

This came up as I found many application are not completely uninstalled and keep some traces here and there.
I need a application that can clean every single bit of file for any install.

Thanks

 

[yinan]

There really isnt something like this. What you will want to do is virtualize the applications with Thinapp or APPV

 

[Modelworks]

You can do this with some of the tools that sysinternals releases. It basically listens to the hard drive driver and records anything it reads or writes.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

 

[Nothinman]

Don't know how it will sound but I need a windows application that can track each action while a setup is installing on the machine. Where it is placing and modifying the registry location and keeping the keys. And then give a log file when the installation is done.

This came up as I found many application are not completely uninstalled and keep some traces here and there.
I need a application that can clean every single bit of file for any install.

Thanks

There used to be products like CleanSweep that would do that, but thankfully they all pretty much died since they provide no real value. An uninstaller leaving a few K in files and a few registry entries behind has little to no affect on the PC.

 

[corkyg]

CCleaner will do most of what you have asked for. Revo uninstaller is a pretty good sidekick for CC.

 

[KillerBee]

Regshot
http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/

Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

may be a little to old though ..last listed OS is XP

Here's a more recent one after googling 'snapshot registry':
SysTracer
http://systracer.en.softonic.com/