Add/Remove Programs List

[Guest]

Hello all,

I have a hard drive that won't boot. If I connect the hard drive to another
computer, say as a slave drive, how could I extract the list of installed
programs that was on that PC? I know that I could look at the Program Files
folder but I was wondering if there was a way to read the list that
Add/Remove Programs uses. Maybe if there was a registry setting... although
I am not too sure how to read the registry off of that drive..

Thanks.

 

[pi511]

from command line type

reg export "hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall"
c:\uninstallinfo.reg <EOL>

and all add-remove information will be exported to file
uninstallinfo.reg
then type;

type uninstallinfo.reg | more <EOL>

or any other viewer, editor, etc, and examine, notice that only those
values named DisplayName are the ones which we see on add-remove
control panel applet.



or instead you can export the whole software subkey

reg export "hklm\software\" list1.reg <EOL> and
reg export "hkcu\software\" list2.reg <EOL>

in case any uninstall info is missing


and again this wont be enough, either, because not all software has to
write to registry, an application might run correctly even after losing
its registry information


ps: replace <EOL> with Enter key

 

[pi511]

offline registry editing;
http://gethelp.devx.com/techtips/nt_pro/10_minute_solutions/10min0999.asp