Add/Remove Programs list 1

[woggie]

Greetings -

Can anyone tell where I can find (if it exists) the file from which the Add/Remove Programs dialog gets the list of programs. I want to print it out. Is it in text format?

I'm preparing to upgrade from ME to 2000 and I need to do a software and hardware inventory. For software, I figure I can use
1. the Add/Remove Programs list
2. the listing of the folders on my drives, particularly the Program Files sub-folders. Since MS decided when they created the first Windows that the facility available in DOS to send the Tree command to the printer was unnecessary, I found Fineware's Spacehound32 to do that.
3. the listing of a particular folder that I've created to hold every program install file that I've ever downloaded.
4. a list of every program CD, diskette, box, and manual, and every piece of hardware that I can find by tearing my office apart.

Can anyone think of any bases I've not covered in this?

Has anyone done this upgrade and can (s)he please provide me with any caveats that they discovered?

FYI - My machine is an HP Pavilion 7360 (Pentium 200mmx, 128MB)

Cheers all, woggie

 

[gunthnp]

if I remeber right its on the reg So long and thanks for all the fish.

 

[kwunder]

I think the info you need is at the following location in the registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall


Just click start/run and type regedit then OK and go to the above location.

Let me know if this helps

kwunder

 

[woggie]

Yes, indeed, guys, it is in the registry. Thanks for the path, kwunder.

However, I need a way to print it out in a list.

The only way the registry offers to print is to print every blessed entry for every bloody item in the currently seleted folder.

Also, I can't copy and paste the subfolders of the uninstall folder because the directory-style treeview control does not offer the option of selecting more than one item in the tree.

In my uninstall folder there are 188 entries, each with a number of keys. My printer ran out of ink!

I suppose I could capture the five 1024x768 screens-ful of the RegEdit window and run them through an OCR program, then knit the results together into a list, but there HAS to be an easier way!

Doesn't anyone know it?

Cheers, woggie

 

[Chris99]

Well, I have a fairly straight-forward way, but it'll take a bit of work.

I run win98se, and what I do is this: I push "Print Screen" (I think some people have to push Alt + Print Screen) and I take a picture of the screen, and then I go into paint, click Edit, and then Paste in the "picture". And then of course print that.

If you want to go to the trouble, you could quickly work with Paint to isolate just the info you want on the screen and print just that. But you'll have to take a few pictures .. because of your add/remove is like mine there's a fair number of programs listed there and the screen won't show them all. If you really must have a printout, this will work, but it's a bit tedious. Cya I want to Learn !!

 

[woggie]

Thanx for your effort, Chris99 -

... but that's exactly what I meant to describe when I said,

"I suppose I could capture the five 1024x768 screens-ful of the RegEdit window and run them through an OCR program, then knit the results together into a list, but there HAS to be an easier way!"

..., the capture being:
- Alt-PrintScrn,
- paste into Paint,
- crop and save,
- then do the OCR to create an editable file to manipulate and/or print.

I tried exporting the registry to a file and then editing that, but that file was so large that when I loaded it into Word and tried to edit it, it took over twenty-five minutes to complete a Search&Replace action. I don't have the time for that. And I couldn't see a way to export only a portion of the registry - as far as I can see, it's all or nothing.

Still looking ...

And repeating the other question - Has anyone done this upgrade and can (s)he please provide me with any caveats that they discovered?

Cheers, woggie

 

[woggie]

Anyone out there?

 

[lalaith]

There is a program called Snagit. It will capture anything on your screen. It is a shareware programs ($40), but there is a free 45 day trial with the download. I use it all the time to create training manuals. It is very easy to use, quality is pretty good and your can control the part you want to capture.

Just search the web for Snagit.

 

[woggie]

Oh well. :-( It appears that "I can't get there from here."

Thanx Lalaith for your response, but I'm looking for a way to do this without having to capture, cut, copy, or paste anything. I just want to format and print the darn list.

Anyway, I've done it already - the long way. I printed the whole darn registry to a file and edited it, putting up with the time it took to do the culling of the chaf and formatting and printing it.

As well, the other question which no one seems to want to, or be able to, respond to is now moot. I opted not to upgrade but to do a fresh scrath install of Windows 2000 and reload whatever software and hardware it would allow.

For anyone else's reference the following items did not work with the Win2k OS:

Adaptec/Roxio EasyCD Creator, v.3
Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2000
Symantec Norton Systemworks 2000
ATI All-in-Wonder ATIPlayer
Linksys EhterPCI LAN Card II driver (installed itself successfully as NE2000, though)
TweakUI (doggone it!)

I'm also having problems installing MS Office 2000, believe it or not! It hangs and persists, surviving reboots and inhibiting OS performance. [See my thread in the Windows 2000 Professional forum - "drive property pages not available"]

I've ordered EasyCD Creator 5 from Roxio. Can anyone recommend a virus killer for Win2k? How about an ATI All-in-Wonder compatible TV application? And TweakUI had the ability to move the path of the data files (like "My Documents&quot to wherever I wanted, so that the OS knew to go there instead of under C:\ - anyone knwo how to accomplish this in Win2k?

Cheers, woggie

 

[K1W169]

Don't Know about the rest But EZ CD Creator bites man I Use Nero5.x for disc to disc copy,iso's etc and MusicMatch jukebox for music. MusicMatch has more support for different type or burners than EzCD creator plus its more flexible. In case you were wonderin ezcd creator has a limit on file sizes it can copy on disc to disc.

I'm paranoid I back-up all my discs