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Getting a List of Installed Applications on Local and Remote Computers

Introduction A few months ago, I was asked to have a look at a PowerShell script which was supposed to be able to list installed applications on the local and remote Windows computers on the network. The script was from the Microsoft Gallery site. Here is the original script, with explanations of what it's supposed to do. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-a-List-of-Installed-c47393ed/view/Discussions Unfortunately if you run the script, it will only list the applications installed on the local PC but outputs the same results for all the computers that you are trying to inventory. I found that the program was very well structured so perhaps the author did this on purpose. Anyhow, I modified the  Function FindInstalledApplicationInfo($ComputerName) and used .NET's remote registry functions in place of the original PowerShell registry functions which looks at the local registry only. In this way, the .NET's remote registry functions can look