How to track changes in specific registry key or file with Python? [closed]

2024/10/11 16:31:58

I have to write a Python script that monitors specific registry keys and files in Windows file system and execute command each time that one of them changed. Does anybody familiar with Python package that can monitor registry and files and call a function when they changed?

Thanks

Answer

There is a _winreg library in python that reading from and writing to the Windows Registery.

from _winreg import *print r"*** Reading from SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ***"
aReg = ConnectRegistry(None,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)aKey = OpenKey(aReg, r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run") 
for i in range(1024):                                           try:n,v,t = EnumValue(aKey,i)print i, n, v, texcept EnvironmentError:                                               print "You have",i," tasks starting at logon..."break          
CloseKey(aKey)                                                  print r"*** Writing to SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ***"
aKey = OpenKey(aReg, r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", 0, KEY_WRITE)
try:   SetValueEx(aKey,"MyNewKey",0, REG_SZ, r"c:\winnt\explorer.exe") 
except EnvironmentError:                                          print "Encountered problems writing into the Registry..."
CloseKey(aKey)CloseKey(aReg)

This is an example of how reading and writing. for more information visit: _winreg library doc

In order to this write a Listener function that executes evey timeStamp and returns a dictonary of regsiter key and their vaules , and another function for compare these dictionaries.

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