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You might be able to read in the registry if a program is installed and if you know wher a file shoul dbe then you can check if it exists. Can you give an example of what you want?

Let's say I want to know if Acrobat (not just Acrobat Reader) is installed on a pc where my db is installed, or if a PDF Writer is installed?
Also, is it possible to find out if an AktiveX is registered? The AktiveX I'm looking for is MSCOMCT2.OCX.

this might do the trick
http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0022.htm

Here's a piece of code will test if any reference you have a broken. (not registered)

Dim MyRef As Reference

For Each MyRef In Application.References
  Debug.Print "Reference Name: " & MyRef.Name
  Debug.Print "Is the Reference Built-In: " & IIf(MyRef.BuiltIn = True, "Yes", "No")
  Debug.Print "Full Path of reference: " & MyRef.FullPath
  Debug.Print "Version Number: " & MyRef.Major & "." & MyRef.Minor
  Debug.Print "Kind of Reference: " & MyRef.Kind
  Debug.Print "Is the Reference Broken?: " & IIf(MyRef.IsBroken = True, "Broken", "Intact")
  Debug.Print vbCrLf
Next MyRef


You could use this to test if you need to installed/register

Thanks Terry, this will do the trick.

Found this link which writes a file of all software products installed. If you know what your looking for then I'm sure you could use this (Adobe) but ther must be many PDF writers so I wouldnt think it would be easy to fin dout if one is installed.
Unless ther is a general way to do it.


If you distributed your applictation as a setup kit you could show a list of products which you intened installin and let the user chose those they wanted

thanks