list of installed applications

[LVCoder]

Is there a way to get the list of installed applications on Windows 7 and the path where they are installed? 

Thanks,

Ritesh

[smercurio_fc]

And this is a LabVIEW question how?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=get+list+of+installed+applications+windows+7#

[LVCoder]

Opps My bad!! I didn't mention that I want to get the list of installed applications using LabVIEW i.e programatically.

I am writing an application which when first run, checks for older version of the app. If it finds, it will import the intial settings folder from that app, else it will create a new default folder.

[LVCoder]

So is there a way to get the list of installed applications on Win 7 in LabVIEW?

[smercurio_fc]

You seem to be asking two different questions, or at least not asking the question correctly. If you're trying to update an installed application, then why do you need to get a list of all installed applications on Windows 7? Shouldn't you know where your applicaiton is installed? And if you want to see if there's an older version, then you must write the application so that it has a version number that gets returned. Did you do this?

[LVCoder]

Here's my case:

I don't know whether an older version of the application exists on the system or not. Even if it exists, I don't know the path where it is installed as the user can change the installation directory when installing.

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

And if you want to see if there's an older version, then you must write the application so that it has a version number that gets returned. Did you do this?

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But, how do I know whether that application is installed on the system or not?

[JÞB]

Follow the let me google that for you link Dennis provided The top hit shows how to do that via command prompt

Use system exe.vi on the Connectivity>>Libraries and Executables pallate to interact with the command line (Windows only- but thats the point right?)