Guide to Uncovering Active Software Installations on PC or Mac

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Registration
• Using Advanced Installer
  • GUI
  • Working with Projects
  • Installer Project
    * Product Information
    * Resources
    * Package Definition
    * Requirements
    * User Interface
    * System Changes
    * Server
    * Custom Behavior
    * Search
    * Properties Page
    * Custom Actions
    * Custom Action Properties
    * Edit Action Properties Dialog
    * Edit Condition Dialog
    * Predefined Conditions
    * Detect Installed Software
    * Detect Installed Office App
    * Advanced Execution Scenarios Dialog
    * Custom Actions List
    * Table Editor
  • Patch Project
  • Merge Module Project
  • Updates Configuration Project
  • Windows Store App Project
  • Modification Package Project
  • Optional Package Project
  • Windows Mobile CAB Projects
  • Visual Studio Extension Project
  • Software Installer Wizards - Advanced Installer
  • Visual Studio integration
  • Alternative to AdminStudio/Wise
  • Replace Wise
  • Migrating from Visual Studio Installer
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shell Integration
  • Command Line
  • Advanced Installer PowerShell Automation Interfaces
• Features and Functionality
• Tutorials
• Samples
• How-tos
• FAQs
• Windows Installer
• Deployment Technologies
• IT Pro
• MSIX
• Video Tutorials
• Advanced Installer Blog
• Table of Contents

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Detect Installed Software Dialog

From this dialog you can add a condition which detects the software version already installed on the target machine.

To be more precise, a search will be performed at the beginning of the installation and the condition will be true only if one of the bold font items in the list are installed on the target machine. The regular font items will not be taken in consideration.

If there are several versions of the software installed on the target machine, the version selected in this dialog will be compared with the highest version from the target machine.

Check if or greater is installed

Select the minimum software version which needs to be present on the target machine for the condition to betrue.

Check if with minimum is installed

Select the exact software version that needs to be present on the target machine for the condition to be true. When selecting the root software version, all update versions (e.g. SP levels) will be included in the condition, but you can also select a minimum Update Version from the sub-tree (as in the attached screen-shot).

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