How to find out the patches installed in windows 98 .

Hi All,

Can any one of you guide me in a way to find out the patches installed in
windows 98 operating system.It would be of great help if you can pass me the
registry path which i have to check to find the patches installed.Am open
for other ways of finding it.

thanks in advance,
uttam

Try Belarc Advisor

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Regards
Bill

"Microsoft" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

Can any one of you guide me in a way to find out the patches
installed in
windows 98 operating system.It would be of great help if you can pass
me the
registry path which i have to check to find the patches installed.Am
open
for other ways of finding it.

thanks in advance,
uttam

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:58:33 +0530, "Microsoft"
wrote:

Hi All,

Can any one of you guide me in a way to find out the patches installed in
windows 98 operating system.It would be of great help if you can pass me the
registry path which i have to check to find the patches installed.Am open
for other ways of finding it.

thanks in advance,
uttam

Try StartRun and enter Msinfo32. Open Software then select Updates.

As Bill Purvis suggested, Belarc Advisor is good, plus much more
info on your machine.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/

Thanks bill,

That's a great tool but I have to reproduce the same programmatically so
it will be great help if I can get some sample code or technical information
about how windows 98 stores and updates patch information.

thanks in advance
uttam.
"Bill Purvis" wrote in message
...
Try Belarc Advisor

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Regards
Bill

"Microsoft" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

Can any one of you guide me in a way to find out the patches
installed in
windows 98 operating system.It would be of great help if you can pass
me the
registry path which i have to check to find the patches installed.Am
open
for other ways of finding it.

thanks in advance,
uttam

Unfortunately there is no one place but
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components]
is the best place to start looking. Lot's of stuff pre-existing so
watch for that too.
Also some stored here.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings]
"MinorVersion"=";SP2;q313829;Q832894;Q837009;"

And as you might expect the above two locations are NOT the only
places, so...mission impossible? At least for casual work?

Unless you went through all possible updates to find out exactly
where the registry info was stored (like Belarc probably has done),
you are basically groping in the dark.


"Microsoft" wrote in message ...
Hi All,

Can any one of you guide me in a way to find out the patches installed in
windows 98 operating system.It would be of great help if you can pass me the
registry path which i have to check to find the patches installed.Am open
for other ways of finding it.

thanks in advance,
uttam

Bill Purvis wrote:

Try Belarc Advisor

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html


Thanks for this advice. Advisor does a nice summary of the state of
affairs. It is a nice program to get people to use that you are going to
help if they have no idea of what is installed, what is updated and
generally no clue whatsoever.

What ****es me off though is that although it uses an advanced WISE
installer, that during uninstall offers Automatic, Custom or Repair
options, during the installation i didn't get to choose where i wanted
to install it to.
I mean, c'mon, almost all software-installers offers this nowadays.

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Bill Purvis wrote:

Try Belarc Advisor

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html


Thanks for this advice. Advisor does a nice summary of the state of
affairs. It is a nice program to get people to use that you are going to
help if they have no idea of what is installed, what is updated and
generally no clue whatsoever.

What ****es me off though is that although it uses an advanced WISE
installer, that during uninstall offers Automatic, Custom or Repair
options, during the installation i didn't get to choose where i wanted
to install it to.
I mean, c'mon, almost all software-installers offers this nowadays.


Hi,

Try this one, as suggested by Eric in this NG. It doesn't "install",
it's a stand-alone program.
http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1

MM