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Re: query of installed apps on remote Winows
- From: Dave <kilroyd at googlemail dot com>
- To: Richard Foulk <richard at skydive1 dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:00:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: query of installed apps on remote Winows
- References: <200607160101.k6G116L3030832@sd.skydive1.com>
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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