
Active Registry Monitor (ARM): readme
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Please read this file carefully (especially the "Installation" chapter)
before installing the program to your computer.

IMPORTANT! If you obtained Active Registry Monitor not from our web page,
but from another source (CD or a software library), please visit our home
page where you might find a later version.


Contents
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 Program information
 Company information
 Description
 Installation (!)
 Registration
 Copyright and license
 Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
 arm.zip
Program Name:
 Active Registry Monitor
Program Version:
 1.1
Program Release Date:
 Oct 2, 2001
Target OS:
 Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000
Brief Description:
 Utility designed for analysing the changes made in Windows Registry.
Software type:
 30-day trial


Company information
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Company Name:
  SmartLine, Inc.
Author Name:
  Vadim Chumachenko
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@protect-me.com
  sales@protect-me.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.ntutility.com


Description
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Active Registry Monitor (ARM) is an utility designed for analysing
the changes made to Windows Registry - by making the "snapshots" of it and
keeping them in the browsable database. You can compare any two snapshots
and get the list of keys/data which are new, deleted or just changed.
ARM can do comparing not only in the entire Regisrty, but also in any key
of the Registry. It is also possible to exclude any keys of the Registry
from compare results. Moreover, you can create undo/redo files (for example,
to rollback the changes). To view the current state of a key, or to modify
it, you can use Jump to Regedit function. Contents of any key can be
exported to *.reg file.

Very useful for detecting trojan viruses and elimination some problems
caused by software and hardware install/uninstall.

Unlike Registry monitoring software (such as RegMon and Win-Expose Registry),
and most uninstallers (CleenSweep, Uninstall, etc.), ARM compares full copies
of the Registry made at different times, while the software mantioned above
just monitors all accesses to the Registry in real time. So, our method
allows to track all the changes, and doesn't affect the system performance.


Here is a brief list of ARM features: 

- Scan different copies Registry into a special file and browse/search
  them "off-line"

- Scan the Registry on a remote computer

- Compare different copies of the Registry

- Compare individual branches of different copies of the Registry

- Undo and Redo Registry changes based on comparison results: directly
  from the program or by generating the REG-files

- Save any key of the Registry into the REG-file

- Fast search in Keys, Values and Data

- Bookmarks

- Opening selected key in the RegEdit

- Optional command-line interface for automated Registry scanning

- Convenient navigation between corresponding keys of different
  Registry copies and comparison results

- Adding comments to each copy of the Registry scanned

- Full insatll / uninstall support


Installation
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Run "setup.exe". You'll need to select the target directory for the install.

If you want to install Active Registry Monitor without user intervention run
Active Registry Monitor Setup with the /s parameter (e.g. "c:\setup.exe /s").
This gives an install that can be used from within a batch file. There is a
special configuration file for silent setup: setup.ini. With this file, you
can customize the Active Registry Monitor installation parameters.
For example:

1. "Install" parameters:

    Program   - ARM executable file will be installed
    Documents - documentation (readme.txt, register.txt) will be installed

    To specify a destination directory for Active Registry Monitor, you can
    supply the parameter InstallDir

    If you have the registration code for ARM, you can specify it
    in the parameter RegCode

2. "Misc" parameters:

    Run - this parameter is used to launch an application or execute a batch
          file after a successful install.


* * *
The installer for this product was created using Installer VISE from
MindVision Software. For more information on Installer VISE, contact:

MindVision Software
7201 North 7th Street
Lincoln, NE 68521-8913
Voice: 402-477-3269
Fax: 402-477-1395
Internet: mindvision@mindvision.com
http://www.mindvision.com
* * *


Registration
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See "register.txt" file.


Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
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See "contacts.txt" file.



                                              Copyright(c) 2001 SmartLine Inc.
                                                          All rights reserved.
                        Active Registry Monitor is trademark of SmartLine Inc. 