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Tips and Tricks
Tools
WinMerge.EXE
This is a free program which you can get from
You can download it from "http://winmerge.org/
".
Although this tool can compare directories I mainly use it to compare
text files.
If you can get your information into a text file then it can be compared.
Simply commands can export databases, registry, Active Directory,
directory listings and more.
The following is comparing output from the "IisDumpMetaBase.VBS"
tool:
Trick 1 - Poor Man's Directory Tree comparison |
Perform a directory command sorting to make the output "reproducible",
for example:
dir /od /s > Before.TXT
Note that WinMerge can compare directories so the above is mainly useful
if its hard to access the files of one or both directories.
Trick 2 - Poor Man's Registry Comparison |
Use regedit.exe (there are many other alternative tools) to export the
required registry in a text format (such as "REGEDIT4").