Hi,

is there a possibility to read all installed programs on my computer
from the registry using Access/Excel/VBA?

Your help is kindly appreciated.

Steffen Grellmann

hi
the registry may not have information about ALL the programs installed on
your system. a program has to create an entry for itself in the registry.
these entries are usually in hkey_local_Machine. however if you want to
write programs to browse and manipulate the regsitry then there are 2
options

1) the hard way is to use the API calls via VB

2) a really nice and easy way that i discovered when i was working with the
registry is by using the DLL REGOBJ.DLL. if you dont have this dll get it
fome someone else who has it and make a reference to it in your VB project.
it makes working with local as well as remote registries really easy.

you could use regobj.dll or the API calls yif you wish to retrun the names
of all the keys under the hkey_local_machine\Software key

Check it out

Saurabh Singhvi

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:01:39 -0500, "Saurabh Singhvi"

Hi Saurabh,

thank you very much for replying. In the meantime I've got the dll and
checked out the documentation which sounds interesting. Unfortunately
I'm not so well experienced in programming with VB that I just want to
ask again for some help:

As you know I want to obtain a list of all the installed programs from
the registry and found the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

very suitable for this. At the moment I'm not sure how the code must
be to get all the subkeys (softwares) from the above path.

Your help would be kindly appreciated.

Thank you,

Steffen