Which WinAPI Call should i use to read Control Panel functions.

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Rajesh Kaki

HI,

generally we can see the list of programs installed on our machine from Add
or Remove programs.
I need to write a VB code to read the Programs listed there.
I have to use a windows API Call in Visual Basic 6.0 to read this list from
Add or Remove Programs.
can any one please help me
 
Rajesh said:
HI,

generally we can see the list of programs installed on our machine from Add
or Remove programs.
I need to write a VB code to read the Programs listed there.
I have to use a windows API Call in Visual Basic 6.0 to read this list from
Add or Remove Programs.
can any one please help me
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It's not an API. The info is contained in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

This URL has a VBScript for reading it http://billsway.com/vbspage/ about half way down.
Mike
 
Hi MikeR,

Thanks for your information given. I opened the Registry location to see
the list of programs installed. I could see only few are listed in the
"Add/Remove Programs-> Change or Remove Programs" compared to the list of
programs in the registry.
may i know the reason why only few are listed there. Actually what i want is
to read the list of programs that are listed in "Add/Remove Program->Change
or Remove Programs".
Thanks for your response.
 
Rajesh said:
Hi MikeR,

Thanks for your information given. I opened the Registry location to see
the list of programs installed. I could see only few are listed in the
"Add/Remove Programs-> Change or Remove Programs" compared to the list of
programs in the registry.
may i know the reason why only few are listed there. Actually what i want is
to read the list of programs that are listed in "Add/Remove Program->Change
or Remove Programs".
Thanks for your response.
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Rajesh -
The only thing that comes to mind immediately is that some of the entries in the
registry are for updates, which by default are not shown in Add/Remove programs.
There is a check box on that dialog to show the updates.
Is there any thing in the VBScript to allow retrieval of different kinds of entries?
If that's not it, I have no more information. There's probably something in MSDN
about it.
 
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