Identifying when progs installed?

[Terry Pinnell]

Does Win XP maintain a record somewhere (registry? separate log
files?) of when each new program is installed? If so, anyone know of a
program to display it please? I want to see what programs I installed
over last few months (to isolate a particular conflict), and the
built-in Add/Remove Programs has no date facility.

 

[eschuylerTAKE]

Does Win XP maintain a record somewhere (registry? separate log
files?) of when each new program is installed? If so, anyone know of a
program to display it please? I want to see what programs I installed
over last few months (to isolate a particular conflict), and the
built-in Add/Remove Programs has no date facility.

Terry,

I use MyUninstaller from NirSoft at
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html.
It shows a lot more information than the built-in Add/remove Programs,
including the install date.

Regards,
Eric

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Terry,

I use MyUninstaller from NirSoft at
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html.
It shows a lot more information than the built-in Add/remove Programs,
including the install date.

Regards,

Excellent, thanks, Eric - that looks exactly what I need. I had tried
other alternatives to the built-in Add.Remove, such as 'Add/Remove
Plus!' from Aurelitec, but that had no date column either.

Are you familiar with the MyUninstaller? A first look at its list (395
entries here) has got me digressed onto several puzzles. The list
included 5 entries with an entry here of E:\WINDOWS - yet E: is a
partition I don't use, containing a very old copy of my system
partition C: On closer examination of one of those 5 entries, 'Adobe
Acrobat 5.0', I found that it is (as it should be) installed in the
usual place, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader, not in
E:\WINDOWS. That got me wondering where MyUninstaller gets its data?
So I used its handy feature, r-click>Open Entry in RegEdit, which took
me here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe
Acrobat 5.0

The data for that key is:
E:\WINDOWS\IsUninst.exe -f"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat
5.0\NT\Uninst.isu" -c"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat
5.0\NT\Uninst.dll"

That in turn raises more puzzles! For a start, it appears to be
showing the location of the *uninstall* program, which I'd have
thought was not strictly the same as 'Installation Folder'. Also,
(nothing to do with MyUninstaller of course), I wonder why in the
above example the data is such a strange mix of those drives and
folders?

Finally (you've really got me going here <g>), why do so many entries
not *have* an Installation Folder?

I'll email the author, but if anyone has any insights I'd appreciate
them please.

 

[Frank Bohan]

Does Win XP maintain a record somewhere (registry? separate log
files?) of when each new program is installed? If so, anyone know of a
program to display it please? I want to see what programs I installed
over last few months (to isolate a particular conflict), and the
built-in Add/Remove Programs has no date facility.

By arranging the sub-folders in your "Programs" folder in "Date Created"
order (right-click on the heading) you can see the dates on which they were
created. If you do not have a "Date Created" column, right-click on "Name"
and select it from the list. As with all the columns, you can reverse the
order by right-clicking on the heading.

You can do the above in Windows Explorer or get TrackerV3 which will give
you tabbed browsing and lots more. http://www.trackerv3.com/

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Keep your face to the sun and the shadows will always be behind you.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

By arranging the sub-folders in your "Programs" folder in "Date Created"
order (right-click on the heading) you can see the dates on which they were
created. If you do not have a "Date Created" column, right-click on "Name"
and select it from the list. As with all the columns, you can reverse the
order by right-clicking on the heading.

You can do the above in Windows Explorer or get TrackerV3 which will give
you tabbed browsing and lots more. http://www.trackerv3.com/

Thanks, Frank, that's a neat and simple approach I'd overlooked. Not
sure at first sight if it shows *all* my installed programs, but it
certainly covers all the major ones.