Hello everyone,

I'm trying to list the programs found in the Add/Remove programs.
For doing that, I'm going over all keys in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"

However, I find some discrepancies. For example, My Add/Remove shows
"Ad-Aware 2007", but my regsitry walk finds both "Ad-Aware 2007" and
"Ad-Aware SE Personal".

Is this a sub component of Ad-Aware 2007? How can I find only the
programs, not the components?

Thanks,
Ron

What's written here is managed by the application developer.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to list the programs found in the Add/Remove programs.
> For doing that, I'm going over all keys in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
> \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"
>
> However, I find some discrepancies. For example, My Add/Remove shows
> "Ad-Aware 2007", but my regsitry walk finds both "Ad-Aware 2007" and
> "Ad-Aware SE Personal".
>
> Is this a sub component of Ad-Aware 2007? How can I find only the
> programs, not the components?
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>

(E-Mail Removed) wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to list the programs found in the Add/Remove
> programs. For doing that, I'm going over all keys in
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
> \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"
>
> However, I find some discrepancies. For example, My
> Add/Remove shows "Ad-Aware 2007", but my regsitry walk
> finds both "Ad-Aware 2007" and "Ad-Aware SE Personal".
>
> Is this a sub component of Ad-Aware 2007? How can I find
> only the programs, not the components?
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>
Those are two separate application from the same company. The
"SE" was released in 2004(?), long before "2007."

Perhaps you could ask Lavasoft.

J
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On Aug 13, 3:56 pm, m...@tadyatam.invalid wrote:
> ron.gr...@gmail.com wrote innews:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>
>
> > Hello everyone,
>
> > I'm trying to list the programs found in the Add/Remove
> > programs. For doing that, I'm going over all keys in
> > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
> > \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"
>
> > However, I find some discrepancies. For example, My
> > Add/Remove shows "Ad-Aware 2007", but my regsitry walk
> > finds both "Ad-Aware 2007" and "Ad-Aware SE Personal".
>
> > Is this a sub component of Ad-Aware 2007? How can I find
> > only the programs, not the components?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Ron
>
> Those are two separate application from the same company. The
> "SE" was released in 2004(?), long before "2007."
>
> Perhaps you could ask Lavasoft.
>
> J
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> Replies to: Nherr1professor2doktor31109(at)Oyahoo(dot)Tcom

I installed my Windows only a few months ago, not in 2004.
Regardless of what Lavasoft did, Windows is still responsible for
choosing which programs to display in Add/Remove.
The registry key supposedly in charge of this is the one I used. The
question is whether there is some other condition as to which programs
are displayed or filtered.

Yes windows provided the place-holder in the registry and links up Control
Panel to it but the application developer is responsible for the actual
entries and or cleanup.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I installed my Windows only a few months ago, not in 2004.
> Regardless of what Lavasoft did, Windows is still responsible for
> choosing which programs to display in Add/Remove.
> The registry key supposedly in charge of this is the one I used. The
> question is whether there is some other condition as to which programs
> are displayed or filtered.
>

On Aug 14, 5:30 am, "Dave Patrick" <DSPatr...@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes windows provided the place-holder in the registry and links up Control
> Panel to it but the application developer is responsible for the actual
> entries and or cleanup.
>
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>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> <ron.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed my Windows only a few months ago, not in 2004.
> > Regardless of what Lavasoft did, Windows is still responsible for
> > choosing which programs to display in Add/Remove.
> > The registry key supposedly in charge of this is the one I used. The
> > question is whether there is some other condition as to which programs
> > are displayed or filtered.

I'm sorry but I still don't understand.

Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over the registry and
decides what to show in Add/Remove.
Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want to understand
why it doesn't display that.

Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they do it through
the registry - and it's this logic I want to understand.

Can you post the contents of the key?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm sorry but I still don't understand.
>
> Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over the registry and
> decides what to show in Add/Remove.
> Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want to understand
> why it doesn't display that.
>
> Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they do it through
> the registry - and it's this logic I want to understand.
>

(E-Mail Removed) wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

>
> I'm sorry but I still don't understand.
>
> Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over the
> registry and decides what to show in Add/Remove.
> Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want to
> understand why it doesn't display that.
>
> Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they do
> it through the registry - and it's this logic I want to
> understand.
>
Does your registry actually have the key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad-
Aware SE Personal
containing
UninstallString
x:\PROGRA~1\yyy\zzz\UNWISE.EXE x:\yyy\zzz\ADAWSE1\INSTALL.LOG
(the x's, y's and z's would be different, of course) ?

J
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On Aug 19, 10:20 pm, m...@tadyatam.invalid wrote:
> ron.gr...@gmail.com wrote innews:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>
>
> > I'm sorry but I still don't understand.
>
> > Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over the
> > registry and decides what to show in Add/Remove.
> > Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want to
> > understand why it doesn't display that.
>
> > Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they do
> > it through the registry - and it's this logic I want to
> > understand.
>
> Does your registry actually have the key
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad-
> Aware SE Personal
> containing
> UninstallString
> x:\PROGRA~1\yyy\zzz\UNWISE.EXE x:\yyy\zzz\ADAWSE1\INSTALL.LOG
> (the x's, y's and z's would be different, of course) ?
>
> J
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> Replies to: Nherr1professor2doktor31109(at)Oyahoo(dot)Tcom

No, but it has a key {78CC3BAB-DE2A-4FB4-8FBB-E4DADDC26747} with
DisplayName "Ad-Aware SE Personal".

I have two entries, one with the above key and display name "Ad-Aware
SE Personal", which does not appear in the Add/Remove.
The other is with the key {E31C348B-63A9-4CBF-8D7F-D932ABB63244},
DisplayName "Ad-Aware 2007". This entry does appear in Add/Remove.

I tried comparing the values, the only real difference I found is the
the first entry's InstallLocation string is empty, while the second's
InstallLocation is not.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote in
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> On Aug 19, 10:20 pm, m...@tadyatam.invalid wrote:
>> ron.gr...@gmail.com wrote
>> innews:(E-Mail Removed)
>> :
>>
>>
>>
>> > I'm sorry but I still don't understand.
>>
>> > Somewhere inside Windows there is code that goes over
>> > the registry and decides what to show in Add/Remove.
>> > Somehow, that code does not display Adaware SE. I want
>> > to understand why it doesn't display that.
>>
>> > Lavasoft don't directly influence the Add/Remove, they
>> > do it through the registry - and it's this logic I want
>> > to understand.
>>
>> Does your registry actually have the key
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad
>> - Aware SE Personal
>> containing
>> UninstallString
>> x:\PROGRA~1\yyy\zzz\UNWISE.EXE
>> x:\yyy\zzz\ADAWSE1\INSTALL.LOG (the x's, y's and z's would
>> be different, of course) ?
>>
>> J
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>> Replies to: Nherr1professor2doktor31109(at)Oyahoo(dot)Tcom
>
> No, but it has a key {78CC3BAB-DE2A-4FB4-8FBB-E4DADDC26747}
> with DisplayName "Ad-Aware SE Personal".
>
> I have two entries, one with the above key and display name
> "Ad-Aware SE Personal", which does not appear in the
> Add/Remove. The other is with the key
> {E31C348B-63A9-4CBF-8D7F-D932ABB63244}, DisplayName
> "Ad-Aware 2007". This entry does appear in Add/Remove.
>
> I tried comparing the values, the only real difference I
> found is the the first entry's InstallLocation string is
> empty, while the second's InstallLocation is not.
>

If there is no UninstallString for "Ad-Aware SE Personal" then
Add/Remove cannot display it.

J
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