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Re: Installed Software
de John Fitzsimons 04/23/2006 01:27
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:13:09 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:31:49 +1000, John Fitzsimons
><DELETEucwubqf02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
< snip >
>>This isn't rocket science. It has been mentioned in this newsgroup
>>plenty of times. A listing of all .exe files that aren't compressed
>>.exe files would come pretty close to the mark. AFAIK nobody has
>>created a program to do this. Presumably it is far from a trivial
>>task.
>No, it's a very trivial task - just read the first few hundred bytes
>of every .exe file and see whether it's compressed.
< snip >
Obviously not a trivial task. We have a number of programmers in this
newsgroup and nobody has been able to do it. Added to that AFAIK
nobody outside of this newsgroup has either.
>Such a listing would be a better list of
>"Installed Software" (as per this thread) than only listing those
>referenced in the registry.
>Now all it needs is someone a) capable of writing a trivial little
>program and b) interested in listing all his "installed" apps.
>Not me, though. I have better things to do with my time.
Translation - it isn't a trivial task.
Regards, John.
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