re_king_efgwr4w
3rd February 2005 08:19 UTC

Monitor an installation done with NSIS
I have this installer here, and I want to be able to monitor or somehow find out what it actually does when installing? It doesn't seem to remove everything when I uninstall it and I want to find out what it is.

I assume it's not possible to decompile the installer?

Yathosho
3rd February 2005 11:53 UTC

decompiling is not possible, i recommend the free monitor tools from sysinternals. they might not be able to monitor everything the installer does, but they can monitor file and registry activity. if that ain't enough, spyxx (comes with visual studio) might be a solution.

Jnuw
3rd February 2005 22:31 UTC

Sometime holding down the SHIFT key while moving between NSIS pages will give you a logging option, you could try that.