THANKS FOR THIS,...I think it worked! although it dumped out stuff that i don't think that they are installed applications!

here is the output 
ActiveState/
Adobe/
Apple Computer, Inc./
ArcSoft/
C07ft5Y/
Classes/
Clients/
DataDirect/
Documentum/
Gemplus/
IDM Computer Solutions, Inc./
InstalledOptions/
InstallShield/
Intel/
JavaSoft/
L&H/
Licenses/
Microsoft/
Netscape/
Nikon/
NVIDIA Corporation/
ODBC/
Perl/
pixology/
PlaceWare/
Policies/
Program Groups/
Reflectent/
Schlumberger/
Secure/
SYBASE/
Symantec/
VisionShape/
VMware, Inc./
Wilson WindowWare/
Windows 3.1 Migration Status/
Description/

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This output is very ambigouis! I have Office2003 installed and What I excpected is to see WinWord, Excel, OutLook, Access all to be listed. Also I have never seen -or heard -of some of the listed software in the above output!! So I don't understand what went on there!

Is it possible to use this code below to obtain the information - once it get de-bugged and since I can understand it a bit better than the one using the Registry tie? 
use strict;
use Win32::Registry;
my $Key;
if ($HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Open("Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVe
+rsion\\Uninstall", $Key))
{
    print "\nDone1\n";
    my %ValueList;
    $Key->GetValues(\ %ValueList); # nothing happens here!
    for my $item (keys(%ValueList)) # nor here
    {
        print "\nDone2 $item\n"; 
        print "$item : $ValueList{$item}[2]\n";
    }
    print $Key->{DisplayName}."\n"; 
    $Key->Close();
}

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Thanks & Your Help is highly appreciated.

In reply to Re: Re: How to obtain a list of software applications installed on a Win based PC? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to obtain a list of software applications installed on a Win based PC? by Anonymous Monk

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