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• WhatChanged Portable — What’s happening under there?

  Posted on April 8, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.15 • 2024-04-08

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Some (okay, most) programs make a lot of changes to your computer when you install them. You may want to know exactly what was changed or added, either out of curiosity or paranoia. We’re not here to judge.

  Today we are going to take a look at an older (2011) program by Vista Software (no longer around) that has been resurrected by J.W. Hough and the fine folks over at PortableApps.com. The program is called WhatChanged Portable. Basically, WhatChanged Portable takes a snapshot of your files, folders, and Windows Registry at a given moment in time. After that, you can install something, or some things, and then use WhatChanged Portable to take another snapshot and compare the two to see what changed. Pretty simple concept and a very easy program to use. It’s even compatible with Windows XP all the way to Windows 11!

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.15.0, 2024-04-08).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• Microsoft OneDrive for Business changes files

  Posted on April 24, 2014 at 08:49 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Office files get diddled – and there’s no change in the timestamp.

  Scary, but it’s an old problem that’s getting coverage in the past few days.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

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