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From: Mayayana on 27 May 2010 19:36

| Thanks. I am using Windows XP and i was trying to get the information for
| all the Microsoft Products that are installed on my PC and on Network PCs.
|
| Do we have any VB script which will get the information?

The only thing I can suggest is to do what WMI/MSI
does: read the Registry. If you look in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData

you'll see that the subkeys are user code IDs. Under each of those
is a Products key. Under that are a number of keys with random numbers.
Each represents something installed with an MSI. If you then look in
the InstallProperties key under that you'll find what you need. The
Publisher
value can be checked to weed out non-MS software. RegCompany and
RegOwner values are there. And DisplayName appears to be what shows in
Add/Remove.

WScript.Shell can read the Registry but it can't enumerate
subkeys. If you want a class that can do that see here:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php5#wmirclas

It's a VBScript class that wraps the WMI StdRegProv. Unlike
VBS, StdRegProv can do all basic Registry functions, but
the object model is clunky and very poorly designed. The
linked class provides a way to bypass the StdRegProv mess
and just use sensible functions like GetValue, EnumerateKeys,
etc.

What you want to do seems pretty straightforward, except
for getting the right user ID key. I don't know offhand how one
identifies the ID of the current user.


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