Opera not showing as installed in Kace Installed programs
In the past Opera would show up in the installed programs list. But I just noticed that a newer version was installed on a computer, and it no longer shows up in the installed programs list. I discovered that Opera is now installed in the user directory. Does anyone know of a way to automatically detect programs that are installed in the user directory? I have seen this with other programs as well such as Spotify.
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You would do this using a custom inventory rule.This link explains what I mean, but searching around on ITNinja about custom inventory rules will provide a wealth of information.
http://www.kace.com/support/resources/kb/article/custom-inventory-rule-applications
One thing to watch out for in particular is 64-bit OS registry rules.
http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/custom-inventory-rule-and-accessing-registry-on-64-bit-os
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You can also find information about this in the K1000 Documentation. This can be found on your Kbox under the Help tab (far left tab, green circle with a question mark). - Ben M 12 years ago
This is kind of odd, because Opera 12.02 inventories properly in my test environment.
The K1000 expects an uninstall entry here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
If it doesn't find one, software won't be inventoried. Chrome is like this where it is not inventoried: http://www.itninja.com/question/how-to-detect-google-chrome-user-installed
Supposedly, the enterprise version of Chrome doesn't have this problem, so it's possible that Opera could be the same.
