This example shows you the available ProgIDs of the Windows applications which are installed and ahould be usable with win32com. My problem is, that most of the ProgIDs are shown, but not all ?!
import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ProgIDSpecification")
for objItem in colItems:
print "Caption: ", objItem.Caption
print "Check ID: ", objItem.CheckID
print "Check Mode: ", objItem.CheckMode
print "Description: ", objItem.Description
print "Name: ", objItem.Name
print "Parent: ", objItem.Parent
print "ProgID: ", objItem.ProgID
print "Software Element ID: ", objItem.SoftwareElementID
print "Software Element State: ", objItem.SoftwareElementState
print "Target Operating System: ", objItem.TargetOperatingSystem
print "Version: ", objItem.Version
print "-------------------------------------------------------------------\n"