Clouseau is built to give a quick and easy way to show you what is installed on your computer and a give you a way to save that data. Below is a quick rundown of the info Clouseau can show you.
- DirectShow codecs
- Audio Drives
- Video Drivers
- Applications
- DxDiag
Codec and driver information is gathered from the following regisrty locations
Codec drivers list from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
DirectShow filters list from
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{083863F1-70DE-11d0-BD40-00A0C911CE86}\Instance
You can then choose to save the codec drivers and driectshow filters list to a json file
Application info is gathered from the following registry locations
x32 & x64
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall
localuser
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall
You can then choose to save the 32bit, 64bit and localuser applications list to a json file
Clicking the Save DxDiag button in the dxdiag tab will prompt you save the dxdiag at a location. Clouseau will then run dxdiag in the background and generate a dxdiag file and notify you with the in app log as to when the file is finished creating it.
Clouseau uses a number of open source projects to work properly, these are also available as nuget packages:
- Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies
- Costura - Embeds dependencies as resources
- Json.NET - Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
And of course Clouseau itself is open source
Clousea is built as a portable application and does not require any installation
- Show generated dxdiag in the window
- Add About tab
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