Finding where Internet Explorer is installed

Two places:  

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

Well, let me rephrase that..  this is where you set policy restrictions on IE and control the features...   lol, eh..?

lol :))

Thanks!

Do you know if HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\IEXPLORE.EXE will work with other MS operating systems (98, Me, NT4 Workstation, and XP)?

What are you trying to do here..???

FE

FE has an interesting question there....

There are numerous registry keys that reference the location ie installation path of Iexplore.exe - depends what you want to do as to whether it's a good idea to do it that way, if you know what I mean.

Yes it works for XP too - unsure about Win98/NT Workstation as haven't been near them in a while -
:))

BTW, if you are doing that programmatically, just use

char acFullBrowserPath [ MAX_PATH];

FindExecutable ( "dummy.htm", NULL, acFullBrowserPath);

Thanks for your replies everyone...

Here is what I'm trying to do: I need to make sure Adobe Acrobat Reader is completely removed from the system. And it places some files into C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins directory that I need to check for and delete if present.
So yes, I will do it programatically, but from InstallShield Professional 6

>> but from InstallShield Professional 6

You can call any Win32 API from IS6, e.g.

prototype shell32.FindExecutable(LPSTR, LPSTR, LPSTR);

see also http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp?pcode=CLASS630PEE&articleid=Q102918

jkr,

Do you see any downside of using registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\IEXPLORE.EXE ?

For FindExecutable I would need to pass path to html file, and I'm wondering if their default browser is something other than IE, it might not give me what I am looking for. MSDN says to use AssocQueryString but its simple to query the registry that to call Win32 function...

No, no downside actually. The default browser problem is something you have to take care of, but won't Adobe actually add plugins to e.g. Mozilla if it was the default browser?

Probably, but I don't have to worry about other browsers.

Thanks for your help