Experts,
Requirement as follows:
1) Get path to the 'Downloaded Program Files' folder on a user's PC (the one that shows when you go Control Panel>Internet Options>Internet Properties>General>Tempora
2) Plonk the files in this folder into a listbox along with their 'Status' attribute (happy to use FSO, if it can fetch that attribute)
The reason I'd like to do this, is for the purpose of an auto-purge routine that every so often reads the files in the folder and if the 'Status' of the file is 'damaged', deletes it.
Looking forward to your suggestions.
Regards,
DocNash
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Experts,
No takers for part 2??? Pls Check out this link for precisely what I'm after for part 2:
http://www.microsoft.com/t
I'd like to programmatically access the Status property of the ActiveX controls listed in the C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files folder. The 3 values of the Status property are:
-Installed (means control is installed correctly)
-Unplugged (means that an installation program has registered the ocx file in a location different from where the code download installed it)
-Damaged (means one or more of the dependency files of the control has been deleted)
No magic APIs for this?
Try this sample code from http://blogs.msdn.com/gste
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer _
& "\root\cimv2\Applications\
Set colIESettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from MicrosoftIE_Object")
For Each strIESetting in colIESettings
Wscript.Echo "Code base: " & strIESetting.CodeBase
Wscript.Echo "Program file: " & strIESetting.ProgramFile
Wscript.Echo "Status: " & strIESetting.Status
Wscript.Echo
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by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2006-06-30 at 14:32:58ID: 17021081
You can use RegRead (http://www.devguru.com/Te