>Does anyone know how to scan a remote windows 2000 computer to see what is installed on it. There are a lot of expensive programs out there that can do this. I'm willing to bet that is not very difficult to program.
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>Also I would like to scan other information like shared folders, devices, etc...
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>Thanks
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>Tim Boccaleri
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http://www.planot.comTim,
In the VB downloads at MSDN there is a registry utility called RegObj.DLL that can open remote registry files and manipulate the keys / data. More than likely you can use this to read through the registry for the installed software.
Download it at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/addins/default.asp I've used this in the past for other purposes and it works well. You will probably need permissions on the remote machines to open the registry. HTH,
