Try to read the following article from Here[^] it might give you some idea. Roath Kanel APO-CEDC Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office

Use SetWindowsHookEx() with the hook type set to WH_GETMESSAGE. Intercept the WM_LBUTTONDOWN events and use GetWindowText() to get the text of the window clicked. You would also need to identify the class of the window(eg. BUTTON) using the GetClassName() function. Bikram Singh

The easy way to uninstall an app is to use the System.Management classes and WMI. You would be using the Win32_Product class. The downside is it won't do a silent uninstall. The hard way would be to use the Windows Installer API's. The documentation starts here[^]. The upside of using this method is that you get total control of how the uninstall behaves. The down side is it's complexity. I hope your doing in in VB6 and not VB.NET. Trying to write a program in VB.NET to uninstall the .NET Framework is never going to work since you cannot uninstall something that your program absolutely needs in order to run... RageInTheMachine9532

Well I can open the MSI up in orca and mess around with it that way, but as is, I have some computers with a c and d hard drive. some times it inexplicably installs to the d drive when there is enough space to install to the c drive. is there something with msi that maybe says install to the drive with the most space available, or something like that? thanks LepLM

can you specify which hardware you want? you can try use the wmi ;P