InstallRite can be found free of charge at Epsilon Squared web site (www.epsilonsquared.com). This is one utility that all network administrator/desktop support person should have. Here's how it works. First, it proceeds to create a database of your current system, i.e. directory structure, complete file list, file properties and CRC check, along with a focus on modification of INI files, and complete registry scan. This will be the base system database. Then let's say you install some piece of software. After the installation is done, you do the second step, "Analyze", which will scan your whole system once again, checking for any single change (addition, modification and deletion of files or registry entries) to the database previously created. The result is the "installation trace" of the software you just installed. An interesting feature is that InstallRite let's you create an installation package, extracting all the files and registry entries involved with the software installation and creating a self-extract install file.
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