Well... You can get a list of *uninstallable* apps by enumerating the
subkeys under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

(At least on Win NT and 2K).  But that's likely to be a subset of all
installed apps.  Getting something like a true inventory of installed
software would be quite a task I think.  I believe MS's Systems Management
Server does it...

I've not seen a very good solution for enumerating registry subkeys--the
last time I looked into it I believe the advice was to shell out to RegEdit
to export the root key of interest to a text file, and then parse the text
file.  Bleah!

HTH,

-Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Asim Karim [mailto:asimkarim@y...]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:08 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Getting a list Of Installed apps from Registry


Hi,
I am looking to retreive a list of applications
installed by reading the registry.
I cant seem to find the code when searching the
internet. Has anyone done this in the past? Or anyone
with an alternative?

Thanks in advance

Asim