Correct Listing of Installed Programs

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ron.gross

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to list the programs found in the Add/Remove programs.
For doing that, I'm going over all keys in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"

However, I find some discrepancies. For example, My Add/Remove shows
"Ad-Aware 2007", but my regsitry walk finds both "Ad-Aware 2007" and
"Ad-Aware SE Personal".

Is this a sub component of Ad-Aware 2007? How can I find only the
programs, not the components?

Thanks,
Ron
 
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Hello everyone,

I'm trying to list the programs found in the Add/Remove
programs. For doing that, I'm going over all keys in
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"

However, I find some discrepancies. For example, My
Add/Remove shows "Ad-Aware 2007", but my regsitry walk
finds both "Ad-Aware 2007" and "Ad-Aware SE Personal".

Is this a sub component of Ad-Aware 2007? How can I find
only the programs, not the components?

Thanks,
Ron
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Those are two separate application from the same company. The
"SE" was released in 2004(?), long before "2007."

Perhaps you could ask Lavasoft.

J
 
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Those are two separate application from the same company. The
"SE" was released in 2004(?), long before "2007."

Perhaps you could ask Lavasoft.

J
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I installed my Windows only a few months ago, not in 2004.
Regardless of what Lavasoft did, Windows is still responsible for
choosing which programs to display in Add/Remove.
The registry key supposedly in charge of this is the one I used. The
question is whether there is some other condition as to which programs
are displayed or filtered.
 
Yes windows provided the place-holder in the registry and links up Control
Panel to it but the application developer is responsible for the actual
entries and or cleanup.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
Yes windows provided the place-holder in the registry and links up Control
Panel to it but the application developer is responsible for the actual
entries and or cleanup.

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]http://www.microsoft.com/protect

I installed my Windows only a few months ago, not in 2004.
Regardless of what Lavasoft did, Windows is still responsible for
choosing which programs to display in Add/Remove.
The registry key supposedly in charge of this is the one I used. The
question is whether there is some other condition as to which programs
are displayed or filtered.
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I'm sorry but I still don't understand.

Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over the registry and
decides what to show in Add/Remove.
Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want to understand
why it doesn't display that.

Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they do it through
the registry - and it's this logic I want to understand.
 
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I'm sorry but I still don't understand.

Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over the
registry and decides what to show in Add/Remove.
Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want to
understand why it doesn't display that.

Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they do
it through the registry - and it's this logic I want to
understand.
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Does your registry actually have the key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad-
Aware SE Personal
containing
UninstallString
x:\PROGRA~1\yyy\zzz\UNWISE.EXE x:\yyy\zzz\ADAWSE1\INSTALL.LOG
(the x's, y's and z's would be different, of course) ?

J
 
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Does your registry actually have the key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad-
Aware SE Personal
containing
UninstallString
x:\PROGRA~1\yyy\zzz\UNWISE.EXE x:\yyy\zzz\ADAWSE1\INSTALL.LOG
(the x's, y's and z's would be different, of course) ?

J
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No, but it has a key {78CC3BAB-DE2A-4FB4-8FBB-E4DADDC26747} with
DisplayName "Ad-Aware SE Personal".

I have two entries, one with the above key and display name "Ad-Aware
SE Personal", which does not appear in the Add/Remove.
The other is with the key {E31C348B-63A9-4CBF-8D7F-D932ABB63244},
DisplayName "Ad-Aware 2007". This entry does appear in Add/Remove.

I tried comparing the values, the only real difference I found is the
the first entry's InstallLocation string is empty, while the second's
InstallLocation is not.
 
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No, but it has a key {78CC3BAB-DE2A-4FB4-8FBB-E4DADDC26747}
with DisplayName "Ad-Aware SE Personal".

I have two entries, one with the above key and display name
"Ad-Aware SE Personal", which does not appear in the
Add/Remove. The other is with the key
{E31C348B-63A9-4CBF-8D7F-D932ABB63244}, DisplayName
"Ad-Aware 2007". This entry does appear in Add/Remove.

I tried comparing the values, the only real difference I
found is the the first entry's InstallLocation string is
empty, while the second's InstallLocation is not.
Click to expand...

If there is no UninstallString for "Ad-Aware SE Personal" then
Add/Remove cannot display it.

J
 
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