Take a look at Belarc Advisor. It's a free tool that will inventory all of the
hardware and software for each machine. The report it creates is in HTML, but if you
need it in other formats I'm sure it would be easy to write a little script that did
whatever you wanted.
http://www.belarc.com/Download.html
Thanks,
--James
How come the answers to my technical questions are always written in another language?
> --- Original Message Follows ---
> From : Liu Wen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subj : Re: logging everything installed on a WinXP system
> Date : Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:26:54 +0800
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>hi ,folks
>I am administrating a small LAN all with WinXP Pro installed. now the
>boss want me to keep a ascii log file that keeps track of every programs
>that have been installed on each computer(every computer has his owner
>too) and all the windows patches that have been installed. The best
>method i thought of so far is to scan every computer's registry to get
>installed software's information, is there anything better and easier
>ways? and as for windows patches, I really have no idea at all :(
>
>thank you
>
>Cheers
>Liu
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