I want to make a program that logs everything installed to a computer. Everything that is installed I want it to log to a file and when told to make a backup of the installed files and instructions to write the paths and registry keys.
the idea is that someone could do a fresh install of their OS then install this program then install all the games and program they wnted and they could always run this program to make a quick and easy installation on their computers if they want to make a fresh start by using a clean install of their OS. It should be selectable-the user should be able to select/deselect the list of programs that they want to install in case one is known to be problematic.
If someone knows of a program that already existists that does this or if there is an uninstall manager that generates a log file that can be used for this purpose please let me know.
Thank you
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I want to make a program that logs everything installed to a computer. Everything that is installed I want it to log to a file and when told to make a backup of the installed files and instructions to write the paths and registry keys.
the idea is that someone could do a fresh install of their OS then install this program then install all the games and program they wnted and they could always run this program to make a quick and easy installation on their computers if they want to make a fresh start by using a clean install of their OS. It should be selectable-the user should be able to select/deselect the list of programs that they want to install in case one is known to be problematic.
If someone knows of a program that already existists that does this or if there is an uninstall manager that generates a log file that can be used for this purpose please let me know.
Thank you
Should be easy to do on Linux. What platforms did you have in mind?