software showing as installed but its not on my network.

[juliavince5212 (JuliaV)]

I have a couple of bits of software that are showing as installed on half a dozen machines but I know for a fact that the software was uninstalled ages ago. Is there a way of removing it from showing in spiceworks?

thanks

[akp982]

This is because the software did not cleanly uninstall itself, it will still be in the registry and thus spiceworks thinks its still installed.

Run a registry cleaner on the machines.

[sorin21404169 (Sorin2140)]

yes…cleaning the registry on those machines then rescan

[bytesnake]

Yepp,

clean up the registry, especially for MS products.

Maybe, you want also disable incremental scan: Troubleshooting Spiceworks Inventory Inconsistencies - Spiceworks … and set scan speed to slow.

[lawriedalman3018 (Lawrie5252)]

Spiceworks gets the information about installed software from the HKLM\Software registry hive, when software does not uninstall completely there are often registry entries left overhanging that sesult in Spiceworks detecting the software as still installed. As the previous two posters suggest run a registry cleaner, if that does not remove the overhanging registry entries you can also use the regedit or regedt32 to search the registry on the hive mentioned for any reference to the unistalled software and clean it up yourself with care.

Remember to backup your PC before editing the registry just in case.