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Introduction
Registry monitor is a very powerful tool for monitoring and controlling the changes inside the registry. The jv16 PowerTools' registry monitor is a so called snapshot based monitor, this means that you can create a snapshot from the registry and then later on see what has changed in your registry.

Usage
Before you can do anything with the registry monitor you must create a snapshot. This is done by starting the registry monitor and clicking Take a new snapshot.

After you have created a snapshot you can then compare it to the current state of the registry. You can do that by simply selecting the snapshot and clicking Compare. When the compare procedure is done you can see the list of changes, you can then undo the changes or remove specific items.

The compare procedure requires a lot of processing power so it might take a long time on a slow computer. On a relatively fast computer it takes a few minutes. Notice that the procedure isn't symmetric, this means that the progress bar will move very slow at the beginning but its speed will eventually increase when the procedure continues.

Note that the registry monitor will only monitor Reg_Sz, Reg_Expand_Sz and Reg_Dword types of data. This is done for performance issues, both the speed of snapshot creation and comparing but also to keep the snapshot files reasonable small.