Re: Using WMI to List all Locally Installed Software from C#

mayayana wrote:

only relates to software installed via Windows Installer
(using an MSI database file). Even Microsoft rarely
uses MSI files.

Actually, nearly all Microsoft/Adobe products are installed/configured using the MSI, even when a product starts with a setup.exe program, it nearly always uses MSI behind the scenes; e.g.

Microsoft Office Products since 2000
Visual Studio
SDKs and DDKs

These days, I don't bother walking the registry because it's all available with MSI. The exceptions are "Windows Components" and that's probably deliberate on the part of Microsoft to prevent people uninstalling their useless IE browser and useless Media Player. The really stupid thing, is that Microsoft disabled the MSI provider for WMI in Windows Server 2003, but it appears to be back in Vista/2008??

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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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