Why is enumerating installed MSI packages so slow?

Question

This is a follow up from this question.

I\'m using this slightly modified script to enumerate all installed MSI packages:

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Answer 1

Win32_Product WMI class is so slow because it is doing a Consistency Check - processing every package using Msiexec.exe - everytime you use it.

Check out the issues and vbscript code to do it using a better method at this page: http://csi-windows.com/toolkit/288-win32product-wmi-class-replacement