List of All Programs avaiable in Add/Remove Program in Control Pan

Hi All,

i want to write a script the should get list of all programs which are
available in Add/ Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

i tried from WMI script but its returning only those programs which
Installed with windows Installer.

i have also tried registry Key
(HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall)
but its returning some extra programs which are not available in Add/ Remove
progmras list. :(

can any body help me.

Thanks in Advance.

SS

mayayana
Sun Sep 17 18:25:21 CDT 2006

See this download for sample code and
explanantions. It includes a script
to weed the Uninstall key listings, along
with code to look through the App Paths
key and list the windows Installer installs
by using Windows Installer sdirectly (no
WMI needed). There's also some information
about all of that in the download.

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php3#enumsoft

>
> i want to write a script the should get list of all programs which are
> available in Add/ Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
>
> i tried from WMI script but its returning only those programs which
> Installed with windows Installer.
>
> i have also tried registry Key
> (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall)
> but its returning some extra programs which are not available in Add/
Remove
> progmras list. :(
>
> can any body help me.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> SS

Shahid
Mon Sep 18 00:08:02 CDT 2006

Thanks Mayayana..

but i am getting "You don't have permission to access / on this server."
error when i access that link




"mayayana" wrote:

> See this download for sample code and
> explanantions. It includes a script
> to weed the Uninstall key listings, along
> with code to look through the App Paths
> key and list the windows Installer installs
> by using Windows Installer sdirectly (no
> WMI needed). There's also some information
> about all of that in the download.
>
> http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php3#enumsoft
>
> >
> > i want to write a script the should get list of all programs which are
> > available in Add/ Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
> >
> > i tried from WMI script but its returning only those programs which
> > Installed with windows Installer.
> >
> > i have also tried registry Key
> > (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall)
> > but its returning some extra programs which are not available in Add/
> Remove
> > progmras list. :(
> >
> > can any body help me.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > SS
>
>
>

mayayana
Mon Sep 18 07:32:53 CDT 2006


>
> but i am getting "You don't have permission to access / on this server."
> error when i access that link
>
Sorry. It blocks "download helper" software.
There are notes about that on the site but they're
easily missed.
If you use a regular browser download method
it will work fine.

Jerold
Mon Sep 18 07:42:32 CDT 2006

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:07:01 -0700, Shahid <Shahid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>i want to write a script the should get list of all programs which are
>available in Add/ Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
>
>i tried from WMI script but its returning only those programs which
>Installed with windows Installer.
>
>i have also tried registry Key
>(HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall)
>but its returning some extra programs which are not available in Add/ Remove
>progmras list. :(
>
>can any body help me.
>
>Thanks in Advance.
>
>SS

See tip 9220 » How can I generate a .TSV file containing the software installed on my computer?
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

mayayana
Mon Sep 18 08:18:29 CDT 2006


> See tip 9220 » How can I generate a .TSV file containing the software
installed on my computer?
> in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com
>

There's some funky cvode on that page.

I find that I can reach your home page,
but your FAQ link leads to a blank, beige
screen. The source code is a very odd
inupt field with a very long encoded string.
Firefox stops loading the page in the midst
of that string and says. "done".

mayayana
Mon Sep 18 09:20:56 CDT 2006

> See tip 9220 » How can I generate a .TSV file containing the software
installed on my computer?
> in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

That's a very odd website, indeed. I downloaded
it non-browser mode. All of your pages fail in Firefox
(at least for me) because of a very long Base64
string that actually translates into a number of
WindowsITPro links.

If you wrote that yourself I'd be curious to know
the story behind it. What's the purpose of Base64
encoding your webpage? And why does it fail
to load? And why is it also filled with odd characters
like Chr(15)?

In any case, your tip is for WMI, which is only
a wrapper around WindowsInstaller. WMI is
entirely superfluous for listing installed software
and WindowsInstaller.Installer has more info.,
anyway.