I found this powershell one-liner script that supposedly lists all COM objects. gci HKLM:\Software\Classes -ea 0| ? {$_.PSChildName -match ‘^\w+\.\w+$’ -and (gp “$($_.PSPath)\CLSID” -ea 0)} | ft PSChildName let us know if it works!
I ran into this issue not long ago. The short answer is that if you run a 32 bit application on a 64 bit machine then it’s registry keys are located under a Wow6432Node. For example, let’s say you have an application that stores its registry information under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CompanyX If you compile your application as … Read more
OLE = Object Linking and Embedding DDE = Dynamic Data Exchange COM = Component Object Model OLE: This is a method of linking parts of one document to parts of another. For example, having a PowerPoint slide with an Excel chart embedded into it. When the Excel spreadsheet is updated, the chart should update too. … Read more
It looks like the perfect solution does not yet exist. To summarize some research: Make My Manifest (link) This tool scans a VB6 project to look for COM dependencies, but it also supports manual declaration of late-bound COM dependencies (i.e. those used via CreateObject). Interestingly enough, this tool puts all information about the dependencies inside … Read more