How can I enumerate/list all installed applications in Windows XP?

Question

When I say \"installed application\", I basically mean any application visible in [Control Panel]->[Add/Remove Programs].

I would prefer to do it in Python, but C o

Answer 1

If you mean the list of installed applications that is shown in Add\Remove Programs in the control panel, you can find it in the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

more info about how the registry tree is structured can be found here.

You need to use the winreg API in python to read the values from the registry.