Creating a List of Installed Applications

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I'm looking for a program that will generate a list of all applications
installed on a PC that can be printed-out or saved in a text or CSV format?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
In Dennis McGuire posted:
I'm looking for a program that will generate a list of all
applications installed on a PC that can be printed-out or saved in a
text or CSV format? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed
software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

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Dennis McGuire said:
installed on a PC that can be printed-out or saved in a text or CSV format?
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I am using:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/nirsoft1/
MyUninstaller v1.20
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2004 Nir Sofer

Description
MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of
Windows operating system. It displays the list of all installed application, and
allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry, and save the
list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file.
MyUninstaller also provides additional information for most installed
applications that the standard Add/Remove applet doesn't display: product name,
company, version, uninstall string, installation folder and more.

Regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard
 
Dennis McGuire in said:
I'm looking for a program that will generate a list of all applications
installed on a PC that can be printed-out or saved in a text or CSV format?
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WinAudit <http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm>
<quote>
WinAudit is a software program that performs an exhaustive audit
of the hardware and software configuration of your computer. The
udit report contains details on installed software, license
nformation, peripherals, memory usage, processor model, network
ettings etc. You can view the audit report on screen as well as
ave it in text, web page, XML and spreadsheet formats.
WinAudit v1.2.3 now supports ODBC databases and command line
functionality. Download (112kB, 20s @ 56kb/s, virus checked!)
</quote>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
In Dennis McGuire posted:
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Such a program doesn't exist in freeware.
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed
software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
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Not if it isn't in the registry. Making it pretty useless if one wants
a list of all installed programs.

Regards, John.

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Dennis McGuire in <[email protected]>:
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WinAudit <http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm>
<quote>
WinAudit is a software program that performs an exhaustive audit
of the hardware and software configuration of your computer. The
udit report contains details on installed software,
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Not on my computer. I am pretty sure that like similar programs it
ignores installed programs not in the registry. Making it next to
useless as a full "audit" program.

Regards, John.

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I am using:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/nirsoft1/
MyUninstaller v1.20
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2004 Nir Sofer
Click to expand...
Description
MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of
Windows operating system. It displays the list of all installed application,
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Only IF they are listed in the registry ?
and
allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry, and save the
list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file.
MyUninstaller also provides additional information for most installed
applications that the standard Add/Remove applet doesn't display: product name,
company, version, uninstall string, installation folder and more.
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If the answer is "yes" to the above then it doesn't do a complete
list. Programs can be installed without having registry entries.


Regards, John.

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Thanks Bjorn ,
works wonderfully on my comp OS Win 2000 Pro service pack 4 , as
administrator.
 
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Not on my computer. I am pretty sure that like similar programs it
ignores installed programs not in the registry. Making it next to
useless as a full "audit" program.
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Yes AFAIK Belarc and WinAudit only reads from the registry,
and will thus most likely miss any no-install apps, or at least any
such that do not write any (other) information to the registry. I have
not seen any freeware utilities that will do what you ask though,
namely search all files on disk, analyze them and identify which are
runnable programs and which are not, and only list those that are.
Well not at least if you want this output in any organized fashion
with exe/dll files etc grouped under the proper program names they
belong to and so on. On the other hand, I guess it is not an
impossible task to generate some useful while maybe not perfect
output with the help of some file-id utilities, text filtering
utilities and some batch files.....but that is not something I have
looked into (nor will I - as long as don't need it my self :)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
WinAudit <http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm>
<quote>
WinAudit is a software program that performs an exhaustive audit
of the hardware and software configuration of your computer. The
udit report contains details on installed software, license
nformation, peripherals, memory usage, processor model, network
ettings etc. You can view the audit report on screen as well as
ave it in text, web page, XML and spreadsheet formats.
WinAudit v1.2.3 now supports ODBC databases and command line
functionality. Download (112kB, 20s @ 56kb/s, virus checked!)
</quote>
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Thanks for the link Bjorn. A nice little program!
Cheers..
 
John Fitzsimons wrote in <[email protected]>:
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Yes AFAIK Belarc and WinAudit only reads from the registry,
and will thus most likely miss any no-install apps, or at least any
such that do not write any (other) information to the registry.
Yep.

I have
not seen any freeware utilities that will do what you ask though,
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Neither have I. There is a payware program called Application
Inventory BUT it keeps crashing on my system. The people who
made it don't appear to be interested in potential purchasers either.
namely search all files on disk, analyze them and identify which are
runnable programs and which are not, and only list those that are.
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A search of all *.exe files is fairly close BUT that also includes
compressed files. A quick/easy way to tell whether an .exe file is
compressed, or not, is probably what is needed.

It appears to me that the steps would be pretty straightforward. IF it
could be done. Namely :

(A) List all .exe files on a system.

(B) From those results check to see which are/are not compressed.

(C) List those that aren't.
Well not at least if you want this output in any organized fashion
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If one could get eg. a c.s.v. list then things could be "organised"
later.
with exe/dll files etc grouped under the proper program names they
belong to and so on. On the other hand, I guess it is not an
impossible task to generate some useful while maybe not perfect
output with the help of some file-id utilities, text filtering
utilities and some batch files.....but that is not something I have
looked into (nor will I - as long as don't need it my self :)
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Would be nice if someone would. Could ?

Regards, John.
 
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