regread

[MasonMill]

Hey Guys,

Whats the best way to find the registry path to a certain program? I'm trying to do something like:

Global $dir = RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\someprogram", "Program Path")

shellExecute($dir & "\something.exe")

thanks!

Edited October 8, 2010 by MasonMill

[wakillon]

yes !

But you can find diiferents names key for install path

like Program Path or Install Directory or InstallDir...

[MasonMill]

doesnt work though, does it matter than im using win7 64bit? The programs will be in the x86 programfiles

Edited October 8, 2010 by MasonMill

[wakillon]

doesnt work though, does it matter than im using win7 64bit?

It's possible !

but i'm on 32bit i can't give you registry's key name !

When running on 64-bit Windows if you want to read a value specific to the 64-bit environment you have to suffix the HK... with 64 i.e. HKLM64.

Edited October 8, 2010 by wakillon

[Azazash]

the problem you have is that not all applications put the install path in the registry, and even if you do find one, there is no standard key name to use for the install path.

For example, my AVG uses 'AVGPath' as the key that holds the app location, but Ashampoo Burning Studio uses "AppDir"

you could possibly use the folloing location to get it though

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders

as this will list all the folders that 'installed' applications have created.