What changes occur in the registry when programs are installed?

Question

Windows

What changes occur in the registry when programs are installed?
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Answer 1

The SysInternals utilities from Mark Russinovich, in particular ProcessMonitor, will help you - first you run it, turn on the filter, specify the process you are interested in, the full name of the exe file to be launched, say start.exe, press the Add button, then run start.exe, turn off the display of all activity except the registry activity, buttons on the panel, and see what your process is doing in the registry, but there will be a lot of results. any process reads a lot in the registry of any crap, and you need to know which keys it creates and which it changes, for this you need to do additional filtering by the RegSetValue parameters and by some more, you will understand how you read the manual

Answer 2

the registry stores the program settings depends on the program right now, many programs write settings to their own ini file