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PDQ Inventory - how does it get the applications list?

Dave Underwood

February 22, 2018 20:39

What does the scanner check on the clients to populate the Applications list?

Ex. Regkey? hlm\software\microsoft\windows\current version\uninstall ?

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Callan Johnstone
February 23, 2018 07:42

According to PDQ Inventory User, Documentation Application scanner does the following through the registry

You can find the Documentation while in Inventory, Press F1 > Scanning Computers > Scanners > Scanner Details

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Dave Underwood
February 23, 2018 17:24

Thank you Callan. I was hoping to get the specific reg keys checked, as I have a client in particular that PDQ reports that this machine has a very old version of Mozilla installed in a profile. I have created a an uninstaller that runs as the "user logged in" and have been successful on most machines. This machine, however, I can not find anywhere on the machine any traces of this old version of Mozilla. I must be missing the correct RegKeys....

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Joseph Walker
April 20, 2018 17:32

HKU\ SID \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrnetVersion\Uninstall

Should be able to search in there and find a piece of software. The SID can then used to find our the username by going to..

HKLM\Sotware\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

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