When I view my software inventory I see items listed that are no longer installed on the machine listed as “Installed on”. Is there a setting to remove this software from inventory?<\/p>","upvoteCount":2,"answerCount":4,"datePublished":"2010-05-28T07:04:42.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"wannabe","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/wannabe"},"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"
There for you`ll need to clean up the registry of the scanned machines, as the software has not fully removed all registry entries at uninstall/upgrade (M$ is known for this). Best Registry Cleaner<\/strong><\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2010-05-30T23:56:42.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/software-inventory-not-accurate/52308/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"bytesnake","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/bytesnake"}},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
When I view my software inventory I see items listed that are no longer installed on the machine listed as “Installed on”. Is there a setting to remove this software from inventory?<\/p>","upvoteCount":2,"datePublished":"2010-05-28T07:04:43.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/software-inventory-not-accurate/52308/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"wannabe","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/wannabe"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":" Spiceworks looks for software in the registry hklm\\software if its listed there sw will pick it up.<\/p>\n Follow bytesnake suggestion to clean your registry.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2010-05-31T01:22:01.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/software-inventory-not-accurate/52308/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"yasaf","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/yasaf"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":" Hiya<\/p>\n Did you get this sorted in the end?<\/p>\n Could you mark the best answer and any helpful posts ( what are these?<\/a> )?<\/p>\n Thanks<\/p>\n Andy (Your Helpful Product Advisor)<\/p>\n P.S. Make sure you checkout UnofficialSpiceworks.com<\/a> for the latest Spiceworks info.<\/p>\n P.S. Also remember you can make your own cool Spiceworks community badge with spread-spiceworks.org.uk<\/a><\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2010-06-23T00:44:12.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/software-inventory-not-accurate/52308/4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"akp982","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/akp982"}}]}}