Registry relevance not working.. Querying "DisplayName" of Uninstall

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(imported topic written by tscott91)

All I’m trying to do is find out if a program is installed on a PC…

exists key whose (value “DisplayName” of it as string contains “TestStringHere”) of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall” of registry

The above returns false no matter what I put in the “TestStringHere”… I’ve even done a copy / paste of that value directly out of the registry and it still returns false…

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks!

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

are you running this test on an x64 windows OS? if so, try “of native registry”

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(imported comment written by tscott91)

Bingo!!! Thanks so much!

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Knowing you already got it to work, I thought I’d just share our code to handle this:

exists values “DisplayVersion” whose (it as string as version = “1.0.0.0” as version) of keys whose (value “DisplayName” of it as string as lowercase contains “programnamegoeshere”) of keys “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall” of (if x64 of operating system then (x32 registry; x64 registry) else registry)

This returns all systems with the version of the app installed.

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

nice