Re: query of installed apps on remote Winows

2006-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:51:38PM -1000, Richard Foulk wrote: >Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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, h

Re: query of installed apps on remote Winows

2006-07-16 Thread Richard Foulk
Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: query of installed apps on remote Winows

2006-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:00:49PM +0100, Dave wrote: >>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! > - Execut

Re: query of installed apps on remote Winows

2006-07-16 Thread Dave
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/

query of installed apps on remote Winows

2006-07-15 Thread Richard Foulk
Aloha, Didn't get much response on my last query of this topic. But the discussion of regtool has made me wonder ... regtool can access registries of remote machines. So it seems there must be an `easy' way of accessing the list of `currently installed' programs. Anyone know how the control-pa