Software detection is done using WMI calls. Changing the AlternateRegistryView setting does not make a difference on the collection of applications. It might if you are using registry scraping techniques, but this example code does not.

Just to verify, I called the WMIInstalledProducts UDF with AlternateRegistryView On and Off and got exactly the same results running on Windows 8.0 x64.

Glenn
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