How to get version number of any application installed on box

bimleshsharma has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: How to get version number of any application installed on box by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 22, 2012 at 11:44 UTC
As I specified in Get version of installed OS, you could read the documetation for Config. You print the osversion and expect it to tell you the version number of Adobe Acrobat? At minimum make some effort to understand what the code you provide actually does. There's no way this module with that value will ever relate to anything other than the operating system. Consider searching the registry for the information you see. Win32::TieRegistry. Update: fixed typo.	[reply]
Re^2: How to get version number of any application installed on box by bimleshsharma (Beadle) on Nov 22, 2012 at 12:00 UTC
True, You are right. i am looking in your advised module. Thanks	[reply]
Re: How to get version number of any application installed on box by bulk88 (Priest) on Nov 23, 2012 at 02:55 UTC
Since you are on Windows, if you have a EXE or DLL, the majority of them have a version number in them if you right click-properties-version tab. http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-0.45/Win32.pm#Win32::GetFileVersion(FILENAME) will get you that info API wise. You are using an API from version.dll to get that info. So google version.dll and Perl and maybe you will find more. Trying to extract the version number from MSI or the registry, I dont know about. You are venturing into the COM land.	[reply]
Re^2: How to get version number of any application installed on box by Anonymous Monk on Nov 23, 2012 at 03:15 UTC
I'm sure this wheel exists already, part of it might be http://live.sysinternals.com/sigcheck.exe -q -a -v :)	[reply]
Re: How to get version number of any application installed on box by stefbv (Priest) on Nov 23, 2012 at 21:58 UTC
System Configuration Collector might be what you are looking for.	[reply]