Borrar filtros
Borrar filtros

Locate an installed software in Windows using MATLAB

7 visualizaciones (últimos 30 días)
Mehdi
Mehdi el 25 de Abr. de 2015
Comentada: Mehdi el 29 de Abr. de 2015
Hi,
Is it possible to find the location of an installed software in Windows using MATLAB? I need my MATLAB code to find the location of an installed application (exe file) and then run it. I found this string in stackoverflow website:
notepadEdit = winqueryreg('HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT','Applications\notepad.exe\shell\edit\command')
but it doesn't work for an app that is installed in program files.
Thank you in advance for any hint.
  1 comentario
Jan
Jan el 25 de Abr. de 2015
What do you know about the program you are looking for? Please provide this important detail, because we cannot guess it.

Iniciar sesión para comentar.

Respuestas (1)

Jan
Jan el 25 de Abr. de 2015
If you know the name of the executable and that it is installed in e.g. the "Program Files (x86)" folder:
[Result, WordPath] = system('WHERE /F /R "c:\Program Files (x86)" winword.exe')
system(WordPath)
  3 comentarios
Jan
Jan el 26 de Abr. de 2015
And now, Mehdi? Did you try to run the WHERE command of the OS as I've suggested? Please consider, that I still do not know what "the name" means exactly. "Installed app" is not the same as "an exe file made by Matlab", so there is still the need to guess, what you exactly want. It would be easier, if you give an exact example.
Searching a file should be done on the operating system level. You can find millions of descriptions, when you search in the net for e.g. "windows batch find a file".
Mehdi
Mehdi el 29 de Abr. de 2015
Thank you for your explanations.
Yes I did run the WHERE command and it gave me the location. Thank you. It was slow though.
Here is the issue. Users of my app could install it anywhere in their computer, not necessarily in program files. I need to know where it's installed because there is a file that will be located next to the app in the installation folder and has to be run (or called) programmatically. So my app could have any name and it could be installed anywhere. Does that make sense?

Iniciar sesión para comentar.

Categorías

Más información sobre Introduction to Installation and Licensing en Help Center y File Exchange.

Etiquetas

Aún no se han introducido etiquetas.

Productos

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!

Translated by