How to monitor registry changes | Tech Off

ed_de_wind

Hi, all........ I'm wondering if there's any way to monitor whatever changes happens in Windows Registry. I'd like to develop a simple application which monitors registry changes using Visual Basic 2005. Can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanx in advance.

AdrianJMartin

Don't reinvent the wheel!

Use SysInternals ProcessMonitor:-

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx

littleguru
<3 Seattle

If you need it in your own code: this is a class for .NET that monitors the registry.

I have been writing my own right now, but when I searched for "RegNotifyChangeKeyValue" (which does the monitoring) the third result entry was a link to the class that I linked above... No need to reinvent the wheel again!

Big Smile

ed_de_wind

I already downloaded source code for the class and read the sample code. There's this line: "objMonitor.RegChanged += New EventHandler........" But why can't the Intellisense display the RegChanged event in my application? I opened the RegistryUtils class and looked at the RegChanged Event. It was declared as Protected and I changed it to Public declaration. But things just went the same, I still can't display the RegChanged event when I hit Ctrl+Space after the object name. What did I do wrong?