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Terry Pinnell
I've just installed a program that lists installed programs and shows
a lot more information than the built-in Add/remove Programs, such as
the install date, which is what prompted me to get it. Another column
is 'Installation Folder', which has got me puzzled.
My list of 395 'programs' includes a few with an Installation Folder
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, 'Adobe Acrobat 5.0', I found that it is installed in the
usual place, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader, not in
E:\WINDOWS. (That got me wondering where the program gets its data, so
I've emailed its author.) But meanwhile I used its 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'. Am I
right? Also, why in the above example is the data is such a strange
mix of those drives and folders?
Finally why would so many entries not *have* an Installation Folder at
all?
a lot more information than the built-in Add/remove Programs, such as
the install date, which is what prompted me to get it. Another column
is 'Installation Folder', which has got me puzzled.
My list of 395 'programs' includes a few with an Installation Folder
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, 'Adobe Acrobat 5.0', I found that it is installed in the
usual place, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader, not in
E:\WINDOWS. (That got me wondering where the program gets its data, so
I've emailed its author.) But meanwhile I used its 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'. Am I
right? Also, why in the above example is the data is such a strange
mix of those drives and folders?
Finally why would so many entries not *have* an Installation Folder at
all?