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February 26, 2009 at 07:35 AM
slayer_

What’s a good program to track and reproduce system changes?

by slayer_ . Updated 17 years, 4 months ago

If you ever heard of the Print 2 Image printer, it has the ability to be interfaced through code. However, it first requires to be setup on each workstation. This is a huge issue.

ATM I have created a fancy program that controls your keyboard and uses sendmessage in a variaty of ways to actually click through the visual interface of the controls and set these configurations. This works pretty much flawlessly.

However, it turns out that this printer will randomly lose its configuration.

This version of the printer is meant for terminal server environments and keeps settings for each individual user.

I have already checked and there does not seem to be any configuration files created for this printer. Which leaves the likely conclusion that it is editing the registry in some way.

How can I track these changes so I can reproduce them in code and check if the changes have been mysteriously lost.

If there is a program that can tell me the registry changes made when I manually edit the options in the printer, it would be very helpful. If it can also tell me what filesystem changes have occured it would be perfect.

Anyone know of anything that can help me? (preferably free)

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