Question

COM objects can be created and used in PowerShell, for example to control Microsoft Office applications:

$excel = New-Object -com "Excel.Application" $excel.visible = $true 

How can I list all of the available COM objects that can be created in PowerShell?

Answer 1

I found this PowerShell one-liner script that supposedly lists all COM objects.

gci HKLM:\Software\Classes -ea 0| ? {$_.PSChildName -match '^\w+\.\w+$' -and (gp "$($_.PSPath)\CLSID" -ea 0)} | ft PSChildName