Re: Access and modify Add/Remove program list within WSH...

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

If you look there you'll see how it works. Any valid
Add/Remove entry will have at least a display name
and an uninstall string. For some reason MS also adds
a lot of junk - keys with no values. In other cases,
as for example the old JVM, MS prevents the removal
option by "civilians" through the method of having
a removal command line value but no display name value.
Those items can be removed, but only by fetching the
command line from the Registry and pasting it into Run.


Is it possible to access the list of programs under Add/Remove programs
through WSH. If so, is there an example of accessing and modifying
this list?

I have had to resort to manually removing some programs from my system
because the normal uninstall script didn't work. Now I want to remove
these entries from the Add/Remove programs list.

TIA...



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