Advertising info
The Darwin Descriptor for COM Advertising is stored as the InProcServer32 registry value. The advertised shortcut's TargetPath is a combination of the ProductCode & Darwin Descriptor + some tags. Open the shortcut using ex. notepad and you'll find the descriptor there. A Darwin Descriptor is an encoded string and when decoded produces a combination of the ProductCode, Feature & ComponentId(s).As the Darwin Descriptor is stored as a "REG_MULTI_SZ" entry it can contain more then one descriptor where other packages may have installed the same component. You should be able to find Darwin Descriptors under the following locations HKCR\CLSID\(clsid)\InprocServer32 HKCR\Installer\AssembliesHKCR\Installer\Components HKCR\Installer\Win32Assemblies HKCR\(progid)\shell\(mycustomname;)\command HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\(sid)\Products\(compressed)\Features(targetpath) Contributor: AngelD (from juice.altris.com)