Suggest a Software Inventory Program?

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Published on 2010-05-03T14:03:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 14:08 UTC
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I'm looking for an audit/inventory package that can run on all our PCs and identify all installed software.

I've found issues with the packages that I've tried in that most of the packages seem to simply list the contents of the Add/Remove Programs list, which is useless with any application that is just a standalone executable.

We have a few hundred PCs so the likes of Altiris may be too costly.

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