Asset management - Software 6A - Search for Installed Software

[LMichel]

Report "Search for Installed Software" returns the following results for adobe flash player 9.0.124.0

Fileds are : Product Name Publisher Version Family Name Category Name Instance Count Software ID Software Properties Hash Collection ID

Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX	Adobe Systems, Inc.	9.0.124.0	Unidentified	Unidentified	2362		74900f077357d96fe2e6c87d816e289f	SMS000ES
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX	Adobe Systems Incorporated	9.0.124.0	Unidentified	Unidentified	337		32b83de3ed6f93b1373511c91b9bacdc	SMS000ES
Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX	Adobe Systems	9.0.124.0	Unidentified	Unidentified	12		f32aa794e79ccca1815fed2683755abc	SMS000ES
Macromedia Flash Player 8	Macromedia	9.0.124.0	Unidentified	Unidentified	10		1cbae3c3d8ff7b32ebe0cced23f1fe01	SMS000ES
Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX	Adobe Systems Incorporated	9.0.124.0	Unidentified	Unidentified	3		58f842837fdd6dac6893010cf5a95cb9	SMS000ES

My questions are :

1) Why is the field Software ID empty ?
2) Why do I have multiple product name (Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX, Adobe Flash Player ActiveX) ?
3) Why do I have multiple Publisher (Adobe Systems Incorporated, Adobe Systems, Adobe Systems, Inc.) ?

Thanks for your help

 

[tbrennans]

Because adobe never adheres to any common registry structure or rules when they release different versions...it gums up the registry and generally makes a mess they they dont clean up old version information and sometimes old files with upgrades or patches.

Simply, adobe writes very crappy software.