From: Gary Britt 

Sysinternals has a utility that monitors the registry real time and shows
changes made.  I would hope they know how to write a utility that can be
trusted.  Haven't used it myself.  In fact I think they have a couple of
utilities with this ability.  One came out fairly recently.

Gary

Frank Haber wrote:
> I don't know of any live registry monitor I'd trust. Why do I shudder at
> side effects of something imaging my hives, checksumming, comparing,
> reporting, etc.?  Should be read-only, right?  Well, that's what every
> live antispyware program does, and I hate 'em all.  I've seen many of
> them running at clients and friends' joints.  They're terrible things,
> especially for crispness of response time to the keyboard - the metric
> to which I'm most sensitive.  Neil Rubenking's recent PCMag reviews of
> antispy programs are probably the best - he's a journalist with honor.
> But it's on these very reviews that I violently disagree with him.
> These programs are POISON for the advanced user. Rubenking probably had
> a "Dummies" mandate - protect the damn luser^H^H readers from
> themselves| this spyware stuff is taking all the fun away from our
> target audience, etc.
>
> If I *really* had to know about registry changes, I'd use the
> before-and-after snapshots of In Control 5, oddly enough by Rubenking.
> It's not free any more. (I think Ziff is $5 for a one-shot DL, $20 for a
> year.)
>
> (Second-hand report from a friend I respect: "Tea Timer was horrible.
> It's better now, but not great.")

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