hi everyone.. m working on finding details on the installed programs in add/remove feature. i want to know as to how to find exe name for these installed programs with exact location details. can anyone help me on this
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hi everyone.. m working on finding details on the installed programs in add/remove feature. i want to know as to how to find exe name for these installed programs with exact location details. can anyone help me on this
Programs can be installed in several ways.
A popular way is to use a "xxxxx.inf" file. It contains pieces of information about the installation. It has to respect rules established by MS in order to be used by the install/uninstall APIs of Windows.
So, I advise you to look for documentations about ".inf" files. But this is not a very simple subject, and sometimes softwares are installed without an ".inf" file. Good luck to you.
It's done with COM (IEnumInstalledApps in google)
That list can currently be found in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
However I'm pretty sure that this location could change in a future Windows release.