When I run InCtrl5 sandboxed (Sandboxie), I need to exclude (in InCtrl) the (virtual) registry key; HKEY_USERS\sandbox_therube_defaultbox or else I would loop eternally once it got there.
Assume I'm running into the same situation with IW. I set it to only scan my E: (system) drive (otherwise it would take way too long to scan through the rest of my drives) & it looks like it will never finish scanning the Registry. Can't tell where in particular it is looping (other then HKEY_USERS) & I didn't see a way to exclude particular registry keys.
(Running this sandboxed on XP.)
(No, it will never finish, instead looping forever. Cannot even get a Snapshot to complete.)
These days, for many apps, I would think disk changes would be less important to know about compared to registry changes. And for that, RegFromApp could come in handy. (What I do, is to point RegFromApp to the program installer that you'd want to monitor, which then starts the install, & will track the registry changes thereof.)
There are other program around. The old Regshot program & then there have been newer offshoots of that, RU I think they are, but I haven't really tested the newer ones.
(A quick look finds this, regshot-2.0.1.70.rar. Try at your own risk.)
These days, I most often will either try do extract from the installer directly or run the installer sandboxed & take things from there. (Sandboxie is far more limited, far more a PITA, on Win7 & x64 IMO compared to XP.)
Some notes I had made a couple years back:
Assume I'm running into the same situation with IW. I set it to only scan my E: (system) drive (otherwise it would take way too long to scan through the rest of my drives) & it looks like it will never finish scanning the Registry. Can't tell where in particular it is looping (other then HKEY_USERS) & I didn't see a way to exclude particular registry keys.
(Running this sandboxed on XP.)
(No, it will never finish, instead looping forever. Cannot even get a Snapshot to complete.)
These days, for many apps, I would think disk changes would be less important to know about compared to registry changes. And for that, RegFromApp could come in handy. (What I do, is to point RegFromApp to the program installer that you'd want to monitor, which then starts the install, & will track the registry changes thereof.)
There are other program around. The old Regshot program & then there have been newer offshoots of that, RU I think they are, but I haven't really tested the newer ones.
(A quick look finds this, regshot-2.0.1.70.rar. Try at your own risk.)
These days, I most often will either try do extract from the installer directly or run the installer sandboxed & take things from there. (Sandboxie is far more limited, far more a PITA, on Win7 & x64 IMO compared to XP.)
Some notes I had made a couple years back:
- downloaded twice, one zip, one rar
exactly the same
except one had no default language (& so defaulted to Russian?)
& the other defaulted to English (this is set in regshot.ini)
has both 32 & 64-bit versions
Release didn't work, saying, "its side-by-side configuration is incorrect"
ReleaseStatic did work
seemingly all that are needed is:
english.bmp (& it can be left out, if wanted)
language.ini (& it can be cut down to only English)
Regshot.exe
regshot.ini
NOTE: that it defaults to storing reports in %SYSDRIVE%\Hive (as in like
E:\Hive) - will want to change that! (& also add in the SANDBOX
exclusions that i've used)
http://regshot.ru/ doesn't seem to be there at this time
"Regshot v2.0.1.70 Unicode" looks to be a good alternative
http://bbs.betabbs.com/index.php?showtopic=61050
NOTE: that portableapps.com says, "The Russian fork <i.e. 2.0.1.70> is a
mod of the GPL standard version that does not provide the modified
source code. So, it's basically an illegal package that may have
additional nasty things included. As such, it should definitely not
be used."
BUT: the old 1.8.2 looks not to work (SANDBOXED) - left running it chews
up memory (i stopped it at 761MB) & CPU. it DOES work fine *NOT*
SANDBOXED, but it is in the SANDBOX that i most likely want it to
work
PortableApps.com
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/regshot_portable
http://portableapps.com/news/2010-12-14_-_regshot_portable_1.8.2