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It is extremely dangerous, slightly stupid, and completely unnecessary to be deleting system files simply to find changes made in the resigtry by the installation of a new program. Following dynio "advise" would be risky at best.
There are many programs which can provide a record of items written to the registry with the installation of a new program. These include several brands of programs which take a snap shot of the registry immediately before and after an installation and permit one to view what has changed. There is also the standard regmon program which can record all reads and writes to the registry, but requires some filtering to find what is needed. A program was released on the RCE Messageboard to do that very thing after I had described reading through 27,000 entries in an effort to find where ASPR was hiding its time trial information on that Board.
I definately would not recommend deleting files for replacements unless extreme caution were exercised to make sure that a current copy of ALL the necessary files had been recorded, just before the installation. Otherwise one is courting disaster. One way to solve this problem, for those studying computer science, is to use a "clean" lab machine, use one of the programs to take that snapshot of the registry, install the target, and then make a new snapshot and compare. Then you have no chance of damaging a machine you may depend on for other activities, besides reverse code engineering.
The last version of ASPR I actually had time to play with was recording its timelimitation entries into the Registry Keys of OTHER PROGRAMS. I have not had time to play with ARM to see if it might be using the same technique to hide its entries from casual observation.
Regards.
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JMI
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