I generally like my old copy of InCtrl5, but Z-Soft Uninstaller has the same function and is exceptional (it’s the best of the dozen or so that I have tried) plus, it’s free.Īnother solution is to analyse the installer itself. Total Uninstall is a good commercial one. They have released an update called InCtrlX which presumably, is better. Again, there are plenty of them, but one of the main ones is PC Magazine’s InCtrl5 (you may have to pay to download it from their site, though the program itself is free, so there are plenty of sites that have it). If you want to compare the registry before and after an installation, then you may as well use an installation monitor. Use WinMerge instead because it can handle large files, diff them faster, and the results are better (sometimes Windiff just gets it wrong). If you want to compare two registry files (that you have manually exported to text), then there are plenty of comparison apps, such as WinMerge, WinDiff, etc.Ī word of caution: if the registry hive is large, then exporting can take a while, and worse, Windiff can more or less hang when trying to read large.

Winmerge tool