Re: location of application installed and executable

[tachyon]

Here is a more complete example that gets the install root for you as well:

use Win32API::Registry 0.21 qw( :ALL );
my @software = qw ( Excel Word Outlook PowerPoint Perl );
for my $software (@software) {
    my ( $key, $type, $data );
    print RegOpenKeyEx( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Offi
+ce\\9.0\\$software\\InstallRoot", 0, KEY_READ, $key ) ?
    "$software has registry key\n" : "$software seems to be missing ".
+regLastError()."\n";
    print RegQueryValueEx( $key, "Path", [], $type, $data, [] ) ?
    "Install Root: $data\n" : "$software ".regLastError()."\n";
}
__END__
Excel has registry key
Install Root: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\
Word has registry key
Install Root: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\
Outlook has registry key
Install Root: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\
PowerPoint has registry key
Install Root: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\
Perl seems to be missing The system cannot find the file specified
Perl The configuration registry key is invalid

Note that 9.0 represents Office 2000

cheers

tachyon

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