query of installed apps on remote Winows
Dave
kilroyd@googlemail.com
Sun Jul 16 14:29:00 GMT 2006
Richard Foulk wrote:
> Anyone know how the control-panel->Add/Remove-Programs facility works?
Not particularly cygwin specific, and comprehensively covered at
Microsofts site. Anyway, here's some basic info.
Each program needing an uninstall item has a key in:
/HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall
See
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709926.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247501
> Is this something that might be supported by existing cygwin tools?
Personally, I'd leave installing/uninstalling of non-cygwin apps to
windows. Can you imagine the queries coming to this list?
- I couldn't uninstall notepad!
- Executing random uninstaller broke my system! Why did cygwin allow that?
Dave.
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