Where does Google Chrome store its version information locally?
I'm developing a Lua script to access application version information found in the Windows registry, but can't find a registry key associated with the current installed version of Google Chrome Browser.
The closest I've found was this, which indicates that the version info can be found at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome.
However, on my system, there is no Google Chrome subkey under Uninstall in the HKCU hive or corresponding HKEY_USERS paths. Any thoughts?
It could be that your installation of google chrome is somehow messed up. I do have this registry key and it contains two values with the current version number.
Another way although not through the registry would be to check the folders in Users/[username]/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/Application. I have a folder with the latest version number in there. (and a folder with an older version).
AND I found something in the registry which might also work on every client: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{5C65F4B0-3651-4514-B207-D10CB699B14B}\LocalServer32 The values there contain the version number in the path.