Sounds terrific!
Looking forward in see this improvement in future versions of CPM 
For instance, Nirsoft ServiWin have this ability so why shouldn’t CPM doesn’t come with this.
Think alot of users might like a feature like this that simplify the task a bit.
Further on regarding the issue I had with Windows Update in the security center and wrote about earlier…
The problem has now repeated itself a couple of more times were my settings for Windows Update become Disabled when closing CPM after a session.
During that time I wrote here earlier, I was using one old copy of Windows XP Professional Sp3 x86 on a machine with only 32bit support. The problem repeated itself also more than this afterwords I wrote my post. Last week I had to reinstall this OS and decided to make a clean install on the same machine.
It’s now updated with all recently updates and today just before I’m writing this lines I decided make a new try with CPM in see if there might be a difference in comparison with the old OS.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t blame on my old OS because the issue is back when run CPM on a new installed copy of Win XP Pro Sp3 x86.
In both cases the failure repeated itself and happened after I closed CPM and shut the software off. Not after every single session but spontaneous approximately between every two or third time I’ve been using it. I receive notification from my system that Windows Updates has been disabled and doesn’t work.
When this occur, I can also see when open the options for Windows Update that it’s been turned Off.
The setting I’m using always is to “ask me before it does anything”.
With other words, it looks like this software enjoy “steal focus” from the system.
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Already during the setup the installer do not come with a simple question to allow the user to restart the system after their own will. It just take over and force the restart to come right away without the user gives one single chance in saving their work they doing. Change this please as it’s not userfriendly.
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Next compatibility issue I faced when using it is that the GUI doesn’t want to cope with the screen.
It always starts in “maximized” (even it is set to open in “normal”) window which appear too big for my screen resolution (800-600).
Because it shows up to big, I can not reach the buttons in make the window smaller to fit.
Then I have to double click the border in get it back to fit the screen.
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But the fun doesn’t stop there. Lets say you wish to switch to another window in the Taskbar which has the auto-hide function active when it’s idle. On my desk I can not call it up and get access to it because CPM steal all the focus.
In make it work, I have to minimize CPM from the buttons on top of the window to get it down to the Taskbar.
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In my copy I can’t see anything inside CPM menu-panel “Windows Updates”, which doesn’t specifies Installed updates. If open the menu-panel for “Programs”, I’m able to find some of my installed updates but only Framework and a few Hotfixes but far away from all.
Perhaps something like this might give any idea, using this script myself on regular basis.
'Copy following in to a simple text-file and name the file InstalledSoftware.vbs (or anything else)
'To run it, just hit it twice.
'InstalledSoftware.vbs - Lists installed software shown in Registry Uninstall key.
'Including installed updates shown in AddRemove Program.
'This script should run on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 as is.
'Windows 9X and NT where WMI and current scripting engine are installed.
'Capability to probe a Remote computer only available on NT to NT type
'Operating Systems, and only if the local computer is logged in with the
'same ID and PassWord as the remoted computer.
'Output is to tab delimited text file which can be imported to newer
'versions of Excel and converted to a handy spreadsheet.
Option Explicit
Dim sTitle
sTitle = "InstalledSoftware.vbs Overview in Detail"
Dim StrComputer
strComputer = InputBox("Enter I.P. or name of computer to check for " & _
"installed software (leave blank to check " & _
"local system)." & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "Remote " & _
"checking only from NT type OS to NT type OS " & _
"with same Admin level UID & PW", sTitle)
If IsEmpty(strComputer) Then WScript.Quit
strComputer = Trim(strComputer)
If strComputer = "" Then strComputer = "."
'Wscript.Echo GetAddRemove(strComputer)
Dim sCompName : sCompName = GetProbedID(StrComputer)
Dim sFileName
sFileName = sCompName & "_" & GetDTFileName() & "_Software.txt"
Dim s : s = GetAddRemove(strComputer)
If WriteFile(s, sFileName) Then
'optional prompt for display
If MsgBox("Finished processing. Results saved to " & sFileName & _
vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "Do you want to view the results now?", _
4 + 32, sTitle) = 6 Then
WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run sFileName, 9
End If
End If
Function GetAddRemove(sComp)
Dim cnt, oReg, sBaseKey, iRC, aSubKeys
Const HKLM = &H80000002 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Set oReg = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
sComp & "/root/default:StdRegProv")
sBaseKey = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"
iRC = oReg.EnumKey(HKLM, sBaseKey, aSubKeys)
Dim sKey, sValue, sTmp, sVersion, sDateValue, sYr, sMth, sDay
For Each sKey In aSubKeys
iRC = oReg.GetStringValue(HKLM, sBaseKey & sKey, "DisplayName", sValue)
If iRC <> 0 Then
oReg.GetStringValue HKLM, sBaseKey & sKey, "QuietDisplayName", sValue
End If
If sValue <> "" Then
iRC = oReg.GetStringValue(HKLM, sBaseKey & sKey, _
"DisplayVersion", sVersion)
If sVersion <> "" Then
sValue = sValue & vbTab & "Ver: " & sVersion
Else
sValue = sValue & vbTab
End If
iRC = oReg.GetStringValue(HKLM, sBaseKey & sKey, _
"InstallDate", sDateValue)
If sDateValue <> "" Then
sYr = Left(sDateValue, 4)
sMth = Mid(sDateValue, 5, 2)
sDay = Right(sDateValue, 2)
'some Registry entries have improper date format
On Error Resume Next
sDateValue = DateSerial(sYr, sMth, sDay)
On Error GoTo 0
If sdateValue <> "" Then
sValue = sValue & vbTab & "Installed: " & sDateValue
End If
End If
sTmp = sTmp & sValue & vbcrlf
cnt = cnt + 1
End If
Next
sTmp = BubbleSort(sTmp)
GetAddRemove = "INSTALLED SOFTWARE (" & cnt & ") - " & sCompName & _
" - " & Now() & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & sTmp
End Function
Function BubbleSort(sTmp)
'cheapo bubble sort
Dim aTmp, i, j, temp
aTmp = Split(sTmp, vbcrlf)
For i = UBound(aTmp) - 1 To 0 Step -1
For j = 0 to i - 1
If LCase(aTmp(j)) > LCase(aTmp(j+1)) Then
temp = aTmp(j + 1)
aTmp(j + 1) = aTmp(j)
aTmp(j) = temp
End if
Next
Next
BubbleSort = Join(aTmp, vbcrlf)
End Function
Function GetProbedID(sComp)
Dim objWMIService, colItems, objItem
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & sComp & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select SystemName from " & _
"Win32_NetworkAdapter",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
GetProbedID = objItem.SystemName
Next
End Function
Function GetDTFileName()
dim sNow, sMth, sDay, sYr, sHr, sMin, sSec
sNow = Now
sMth = Right("0" & Month(sNow), 2)
sDay = Right("0" & Day(sNow), 2)
sYr = Right("00" & Year(sNow), 4)
sHr = Right("0" & Hour(sNow), 2)
sMin = Right("0" & Minute(sNow), 2)
sSec = Right("0" & Second(sNow), 2)
GetDTFileName = sMth & sDay & sYr & "_" & sHr & sMin & sSec
End Function
Function WriteFile(sData, sFileName)
Dim fso, OutFile, bWrite
bWrite = True
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
On Error Resume Next
Set OutFile = fso.OpenTextFile(sFileName, 2, True)
'Possibly need a prompt to close the file and one recursion attempt.
If Err = 70 Then
Wscript.Echo "Could not write to file " & sFileName & ", results " & _
"not saved." & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "This is probably " & _
"because the file is already open."
bWrite = False
ElseIf Err Then
WScript.Echo err & vbcrlf & err.description
bWrite = False
End If
On Error GoTo 0
If bWrite Then
OutFile.WriteLine(sData)
OutFile.Close
End If
Set fso = Nothing
Set OutFile = Nothing
WriteFile = bWrite
End Function