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How does Add/Remove Programs get the size and other information?

July 9, 2004 Jul 9, 2004 07/9/04

Raymond Chen

If the program doesn't provide this information itself, Add/Remove Programs is forced to guess. The problem is that there is no "obvious" way to map an entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to an actual program. Each entry in the list, for those who care about such things, comes from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\...