Not only is it difficult to tell which applications are installed,
it is difficult to tell if an application is still installed as all too
many applications do not remove all their registry keys upon uninstall.
I was going to suggest using a commercial application due to the
messiness o
| [TJG]
| Hmmm. While I understand your requirement, it's not as
| thought there's some easily-discernible charactersistics
| of "commercial software packages which should have licenses
| but which don't"
No? Really? How disappointing.. ;)
| [TJG]
| By the sound of it, you're almost better off c
Get Tim Golden's wmi module
(http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html). I recently had to help
my brother remove some spyware, and so I used some of the example that
came with WMI to read through the registry to extract startup keys,
services, etc.
Even if your users aren't sophisticated enou
"Guy Lateur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | What -- from your point of view -- is an "application"?
>
> Good question. Let me try to elaborate: I would like to know if people in
> our company (building techniques) are using non-licensed software (eg
> Photoshop, Office, AutoCad). So I guess by
[Guy Lateur]
|
| | [TJG]
| | What -- from your point of view -- is an "application"?
|
| Good question. Let me try to elaborate: I would like to know
| if people in
| our company (building techniques) are using non-licensed software (eg
| Photoshop, Office, AutoCad). So I guess by 'application
| What -- from your point of view -- is an "application"?
Good question. Let me try to elaborate: I would like to know if people in
our company (building techniques) are using non-licensed software (eg
Photoshop, Office, AutoCad). So I guess by 'application' I mean commercial
software packages
[Guy Lateur]
| I'm trying to generate a (exhaustive) list of all the
| applications that are
| installed on a user's machine. I've written some code that reads the
| registry ('App Paths'):
[.. snip code ..]
| Can I be sure it lists *all* the applications?
What -- from your point of view -- i
Hi all,
I'm trying to generate a (exhaustive) list of all the applications that are
installed on a user's machine. I've written some code that reads the
registry ('App Paths'):
appKey = win32api.RegOpenKeyEx(win32con.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths', 0
