Yes, it's weird. But in any case, if ascan returns 5.0 I assume, that Adobe Acrobat Writer 5.0 is installed. It's not a pure solution, but it's better, than nothing...

>I just ran your snippet, and it returns 4.0 and 5.0. AFAIK, 4.0 was never installed on this machine; it came with 5.0 preinstalled on it. I'm looking in registry for clues...
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>>Ok, just check your registry at the mentioned address. Do you have 4.0 and 5.0 folders there?
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>>>I figured so, but I didn't have time look and see :)
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>>>>It's the registry class from Rick Strahl (available at his site).
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