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How to get installed browser in my local machine to using registry

Anupam Mishra 1407 20-Jan-2016
I want to programatically, retrieve how many browser installed in my computer.Please give me a solution using registry key.
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Updated on 20-Jan-2016
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Anupam Mishra

Anupam Mishra

20-Jan-2016

All kind of system related information will be present in Registry. We are also open regedit, we may find various HKEY. For checking browser we go through this path:

" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Clients\StartMenuInternet"

We can find many folders inside this location, in which the name of the folder will be encrypted. Those folders indicates the installed application in the current machine.

In each folder there will be many key and data pair of values. In that you can find DisplayName and DisplayVersion.

Here, we using registry class to find how many browser installed in my client machine:

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            RegistryKey browserKeys;
           browserKeys = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Clients\StartMenuInternet");
            if (browserKeys == null)
                browserKeys = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet");
            string[] name = browserKeys.GetSubKeyNames();
            foreach (string item in name)
            {
                string[] strsplit = item.Split(new[] { ".EXE", ".exe" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                Console.WriteLine(strsplit[0]);
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

Output:

How to get installed browser in my local machine to using registry


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