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File holding Add/Remove Programs text?
I'm looking to find the actual file that holds the information which Add/Remove Programs loads. Ie how it populates the names and sizes of all the programs installed. I need to find this file as I am writing a program to check version'ing on multiple programs. Yes I'm aware I can do cmd.exe ProgramName -version, as I'm able to do this for most. However for example MSXML cannot be version'd in any normal way( i.e. I can figure out that a MSXML 4.0 folder exists in C:\Program Files\ , but this doesn't tell me whether it's SP2 or not, I've only found that information available in Add/Remove Programs under its listing).
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>Title: File holding Add/Remove Programs text?
there is no text file, but there are several files which make up the registry which contains the "Add/Remove Programs" list
http://www.easydesksoftware.com/regfiles.htm
there is no text file, but there are several files which make up the registry which contains the "Add/Remove Programs" list
http://www.easydesksoftware.com/regfiles.htm
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Ok so it seems HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
is where I need to look, however, is there a way I can create the hash dynamically so that I know what its name is?
ie instead of parsing through tons of keys in \Uninstall\ is there an algo where the hashstring (ex 4302B2DD-D958-40E3-BAF3-B0
is where I need to look, however, is there a way I can create the hash dynamically so that I know what its name is?
ie instead of parsing through tons of keys in \Uninstall\ is there an algo where the hashstring (ex 4302B2DD-D958-40E3-BAF3-B0
Not really this is done by the OS and the installer. You'll notice some programs have keys others are guids. You are pretty much stuck with that. I would suggest renaming the keys as it might break things.
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
That has a key called DisplayVersion with the value of 4.20.9818.0. This is what i'm looking for. However I'm highly doubtful that the exact location in which I found this will be universal for all machines. Crawling the entire registry with a script probably isn't very fun either.