List of all installed applications (XP)?

[guy lateur]

| [TJG]
| Hmmm. While I understand your requirement, it's not as
| thought there's some easily-discernible charactersistics
| of "commercial software packages which should have licenses
| but which don't"

No? Really? How disappointing.. ;)


| [TJG]
| By the sound of it, you're almost better off compiling
| a list of .exe from machines and building up a blacklist
| from those.

That was kind of the idea at first. However, we have a file server (H:), and 
I've seen apps installed on it. So it's pretty hard to know who actually 
uses that app just by the .exe - could be several people, too, I guess. 
That's why I thought of the registry - which, as you rightfully pointed out, 
isn't a perfect strategy, either.

I do understand that I can remove those apps by removing the .exe (+ 
containing folder, probably), but I'd also like to get an idea of who is 
using what right now (and why). That might come in handy at some point later 
on. Btw, is there a module called pyWhy or something? :)

Maybe I should also follow Paul's advice and go through the registry on a 
vendor/app basis. I mean, ATM, I'm not really concerned about a user having, 
say, Cubase installed without a license. My priority right now is to make 
sure we have licenses for certain apps we use professionally/commercially 
(ACad, Office, ..).


Thanks for the input, people, much appreciated,
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