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hi
How can i get information of a computer in my workgroup in windows application using c#. I am able to get their name and now want to fetch information of that computer like is some particular software is installed in that computer or not. Please help

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You'll have to poke around the registry for that. You can use RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey to access a remote registry. There are some conditions to using it; they are discussed in the provided link.

There could be some security risks with this however. You could also install a client application/service on the remote machine which monitors the registry and provides that information back to the host machine via a TCP socket (or whatever protocol).

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