Software Registry
When the audit program returns the software that is installed on a PC, it retrieves the name of the software from the PC's registry. This is the same name you see when you go to your PC’s Control Panel and click ‘Add/Remove Programs’.
You do not need to enter SW Registry Names manually. The registry names will be loaded automatically from the audit program. However, this table serves as a way to link registry names to Software Titles. For some software, you might want to link a registry name to a software title that is worded differently. For example, there could be dozens of hotfixes from Microsoft. You might want to associate all those to one Software Title called "Microsoft Hotfix" for reporting purposes. Or you might have different service releases of Microsoft Office 2000, and you want them to appear on the software compliance report as just one software package. You would accomplish this by associating the various registry wordings of "Microsoft Office" to one Software Title. See Section seven, “Software Management” of this manual for more information.
The SW Registry Names table has two additional menu items that the other tables do not have, Link Names/titles, and Copy to Titles.
Link Names/Titles