CN1815445A - Application programme detecting and installing method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an application program detection method, which comprises the following steps: setting a detection module in the computer for detecting whether the application program is installed; starting the detection module after the computer is turned on, and judging the application program through the detection module Whether the relevant information has been saved, if yes, it is determined that the application program has been installed, otherwise, it is determined that the application program has not been installed correctly. The invention also discloses an application program installation method. The present invention realizes determining whether an application program is installed. A solution for automatically installing application programs is further provided, which reduces user operations, lowers TCO of the product, and improves usability of the product while implementing the installation of application programs.

Description

A method for detecting and installing an application program

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of computers, and more specifically relates to a method for detecting and installing an application program.

Background technique

At present, computers have become an indispensable tool in people's work, study and life. For the convenience of users, many well-known computer manufacturers will install operating systems such as LINUX or DOS and related applications of these operating systems for the computers when the computers leave the factory. In order to further facilitate the use of users, computer manufacturers often provide users with important applications based on certain systems. These important applications can be driver programs, system protection functions, etc., and the functions provided by these applications are often very needed by users.

After getting a computer, users often install operating systems such as Windows according to their own needs. However, the user's operating system installation program will only install the most basic functions of the operating system, and will not install those important applications provided by the manufacturer for the user. Therefore, the important applications provided by the manufacturer will not be installed on the computer. Users may also fail to install important applications because they cannot find the CD provided by the manufacturer, or because they do not understand the functions provided by the manufacturer. In addition, even if the manufacturer installed those important applications for the user when the computer leaves the factory, it is very likely that the application program will be uninstalled due to the user's misoperation during the use of the computer, or the important application cannot run normally due to the loss of files, or it may be The application cannot be used because the user did not install the relevant application again when reinstalling the new system.

For example, many electronic education users and Internet cafe users will use the hard disk protection function. The so-called hard disk protection function refers to setting a certain interval in the hard disk as a protection space. After the hard disk protection function is set, the data in the corresponding protection space cannot be arbitrarily Access, if you need to access the protected space, you need to use specific instructions to open the hard disk protected space. Based on the user's requirements for hard disk protection, the general computer will pre-install the DOS system and the application software corresponding to the hard disk protection function when leaving the factory. The hard disk protection function can work normally under the DOS system. Most of the users will install the Windows system in the computer, and will set the computer to protect Windows through the hard disk protection function when the computer is turned on, but if the user neglects to install the hard disk protection program during the installation of the Windows system, it will cause the hard disk The failure of the protection function under the Windows system affects the normal use of the hard disk protection function by users.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the main problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an application program detection method to help users determine whether the desired application program has been installed on the computer.

The present invention further provides an application program installation method, which directly and automatically installs the application program for the computer.

A kind of application detection method of the present invention, this method comprises the following steps:

a. Set up a detection module for detecting whether the application program is installed in the computer;

b. After the computer is turned on, start the detection module, and judge whether the relevant information of the application program has been saved through the detection module, if yes, then determine that the application program has been installed, otherwise, determine that the application program has not been installed correctly.

In the step a, the detection module is set in the basic input output system (BIOS) of the computer, or in a specific service area of the computer.

Said starting the detection module after the computer is turned on is: starting the detection module by the BIOS in the computer.

In the step b, saving the relevant information of the application program includes: the application program is stored in the corresponding directory, and the registry information of the application program is stored in the corresponding branch of the registry;

The relevant information of the application program not being saved includes: the application program is not saved in the corresponding directory, and/or the registry information of the application program is not saved in the corresponding branch of the registry.

The registry information includes the corresponding item of the application in the registry, the application value stored under the corresponding item and the data corresponding to the value;

In step b, the registry information that does not save the application under the corresponding branch of the registry is: the corresponding item of the application does not exist under the corresponding branch of the registry, or the application does not exist under the corresponding item of the application value and/or does not exist for data corresponding to the application value.

After the step b determines that the application program is not installed correctly, it further includes: the computer displays information that the application program is not installed correctly.

After the step b determines that the application program is not installed correctly, it further includes: reinstalling the application program according to the application program information pre-saved in the computer.

Said reinstalling the application program according to the pre-saved application program information in the computer includes:

Copy the pre-saved application information to the corresponding directory;

And/or create a corresponding item of the application program under the corresponding branch of the registry, and create the value of the application program and the data corresponding to the value under the corresponding item;

and/or create a value for that application under the corresponding key in the corresponding branch of the registry;

And/or create the data corresponding to the value of the application under the corresponding key of the corresponding branch of the registry.

In the step b, before judging whether the relevant information of the application program is saved through the detection module, it further includes:

b1. Judging by the detection module whether the operating system on which the application is based is installed, if yes, proceed to the step of judging whether the relevant information of the application is saved; otherwise, end the processing flow.

In said step b1, said judging whether the operating system on which the application is based is installed includes the following steps:

b11. Check the activation partition on the system boot hard disk;

b12. search for the relevant directory of the operating system under the directory in the active partition, and read the relevant character string of the operating system under the relevant directory, if read, then determine the installation directory of the operating system according to the relevant character string read, And determine whether the corresponding operating system is installed by checking the contents of the files in the installation directory, otherwise, directly determine that the operating system on which the application program is based is not installed.

A method for installing application programs of the present invention comprises the following steps:

A. Setting an installation module for installing application programs in the computer, and saving the application program information to be installed;

B. After the computer is turned on, start the installation module. The installation module copies the saved application program information to the corresponding directory, creates the corresponding item of the application program under the corresponding branch of the registry, and creates the corresponding item under the corresponding item. The application's value and the data that corresponds to that value.

The installation module is set in the BIOS of the computer, or in a specific service area of the computer.

Said starting the installation module after the computer is turned on is: starting the installation module by the BIOS in the computer.

In the step B, after the installation module is started, and before executing subsequent copying of application program information and creation of corresponding items, it further includes:

B1. The installation module judges whether the operating system on which the application is based is installed, and if so, continues to perform subsequent operations of copying application information and creating corresponding items; otherwise, ends the processing flow.

In said step B1, said judging whether the operating system on which the application is based is installed includes:

B11. Check the activation partition on the system boot hard disk;

B12, search the relevant directory of the operating system under the directory in the active partition, and read the relevant character string of the operating system under the relevant directory, if read, then determine the installation directory of the operating system according to the relevant character string read, And determine whether the corresponding operating system is installed by checking the contents of the files in the installation directory, otherwise, directly determine that the operating system on which the application program is based is not installed.

The solution of the invention realizes the determination of whether the application program is installed or not by setting a detection module in the computer to detect whether the corresponding key application is installed.

The solution of the present invention also uses the BIOS to start the detection module, so that the computer can complete the detection of whether the application program is installed outside the operating system.

The present invention further provides a solution for automatically installing the application program after it is determined that the application program is not installed, while realizing the installation of the application program, it reduces user operations, reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the product, and improves product quality. ease of use.

The solution of the present invention also provides a solution for directly installing application programs, which not only simplifies computer processing, but also realizes the installation of application programs, so that users can use key applications provided by manufacturers without any settings.

In addition, the present invention further provides a solution for detecting whether the operating system on which the application is based is installed before detecting whether the application is installed, or before directly installing the application. Since different applications correspond to different operating systems, the application can only be effective under a specific operating system. If the application is installed under a non-specified operating system, it may not only cause the application to fail to work normally, but may even This operating system may also fail to work normally. Therefore, the solution provided by the present invention for detecting whether the operating system is installed further ensures that the application program can work normally after installation.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a flow chart of detecting whether the application program is installed according to the scheme of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of detecting whether the operating system is installed according to the solution of the present invention.

Detailed ways

Since the application programs installed under each operating system are often installed in a specific directory, specifically, they are often installed in the root directory, and corresponding record information is set in the registry, you can find the root directory and the registry to determine whether the important applications provided by the manufacturer are installed. Therefore, the detection method of the present invention is mainly to add a detection module to the computer to detect whether the key applications are installed, and to find the corresponding root directory through the detection module. And the registry to determine whether the corresponding application is installed.

The solution of the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

Taking the detection of Windows XP system as an example, the detection process is shown in Figure 1, corresponding to the following steps:

Step 101, setting a detection module in the computer to detect whether the key application is installed.

Specifically, the detection module can be directly set in the BIOS of the computer, or can be set in a specific service area of the hard disk of the computer.

Steps 102-103, after the computer is turned on each time, the detection module is automatically started, and the detection module detects whether there is relevant information of the application in the root directory and the registry to determine whether the corresponding application is installed, if the root directory If there is information related to the application in both the root directory and the registry, it is determined that the corresponding application is installed correctly, and this processing flow ends;

Wherein, starting the detection module of the computer may be realized when starting the BIOS every time the computer is turned on. Of course, if the detection module is set in the hard disk of the computer, the detection module can also be invoked by the CPU after the computer is started.

For the Windows XP system, the important application provided by the manufacturer can be saved in Proctec.DLL under the System32 subdirectory of the Windows XP installation directory. The branch of the application in the registry file can be: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001 The value under \Services\LenovoSystemProcted\" is "ImagePath", and the data of this value is "Proctec.DLL" of type REG_EXPAND_SZ. After the detection module is started, it should check whether there is Proctec.DLL in the System32 subdirectory, and check whether there is a "LenovoSystemProcted" item under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services" in the registry. If this item exists, further detection Whether the value "ImagePath" exists under this item, and the corresponding data is "Proctec.DLL". As long as the Proctec.DLL does not exist in the System32 subdirectory, or there is no "LenovoSystemProcted" item under the corresponding branch of the registry, or there is no value "ImagePath" under the "LenovoSystemProcted" item, or there is no such value under the "LenovoSystemProcted" item If the corresponding data "Proctec.DLL", it can be determined that the application is not installed correctly.

Step 104, the detection module determines that the application has not been installed correctly.

After the detection module determines that the application has not been installed correctly, it can also prompt the user through the computer that the application has not been installed correctly.

Through the above steps, it can be determined whether the relevant application is installed.

The above step 103 directly ends the process when it is determined that the application is installed. In order to provide better services for the user, the computer may also prompt the user that the relevant application has been installed. In addition, if the detection is performed by the BIOS, the control right of the system may be handed over to the operating system on the hard disk after it is determined that the relevant application is installed.

After the user determines that the relevant application has not been installed through the above step 104, the user may manually install the application when the user needs the application. However, when the user installs the application by himself, it is easy to have the problem that the installation cannot be completed because he does not know how to install it, or there is no installation program. To solve this problem, the solution of the present invention further provides a solution for automatically installing the application after detecting that the application is not installed.

The following takes the application program Proctec.DLL that should be installed in the System32 subdirectory of the Windows XP installation directory as an example to describe the solution for automatic application installation. Among them, the value of the application under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\LenovoSystemProcted\" in the registry is "ImagePath", and the data of this value is "Proctec.DLL" of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.

If you want to install the application program through the detection module, you need to save the application program in the computer in advance. In order to facilitate the detection module to obtain the application program, you can save the application program and the detection module in the same location. Afterwards, the detection module can be installed according to the information that is not installed detected in step 102 . Specifically, if there is no Proctec.DLL in the System32 subdirectory, you should obtain the application program Proctec.DLL from the computer, and copy the application program to the System32 subdirectory; if the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \ControlSet001\Services\" does not have a "LenovoSystemProcted" item, create the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\LenovoSystemProcted\" directory in the registry according to the application program saved in the computer, and set "ImagePath" under this item, And the data "Proctec.DLL" corresponding to this value. In addition, when the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\LenovoSystemProcted\" directory of the registry file already exists, there may be no value "ImagePath" in this directory, and/or the corresponding data "Proctec. DLL", if there is no value "ImagePath" in the directory, then create "ImagePath" in the directory, similarly, if there is no data "Proctec.DLL" corresponding to the value "ImagePath" in the directory, according to the computer The saved application creates the data corresponding to this value, and the data is "Proctec.DLL" of REG_EXPAND_SZ type. Of course, if neither of these two pieces of information exists, both pieces of information must be created.

Through the above solution, it is possible to check whether the relevant application is installed in the Windows XP system, and further install the application for the Windows XP system when the application is not installed. If the detection module is implemented by being set in the BIOS, the detection is done outside of the Windows XP system, that is, when the Windows XP system is running, the computer has learned whether the relevant application program has been installed.

The above solutions are all processed when it has been confirmed that the computer has installed an operating system such as Windows XP. In fact, there may be a situation where the operating system has not been installed. In this case, it is obviously not necessary to operate It is detected whether a specific application is installed in the system. Based on this situation, before the detection module detects the root directory and the registry, the solution of the present invention can also first detect whether the operating system is installed.

The detection of the operating system is shown in Figure 2, and specifically includes the following steps:

Step 201, check the activation partition on the system boot hard disk.

The reason for checking the active partition is that the directory information of the operating system is stored in the active partition.

Step 202, after finding the activation partition, search for Boot.ini under the root directory of the partition.

Step 203, read the string related to the operating system under the Boot.ini, if read, go to step 204; otherwise, go to step 205.

For the Windows operating system, the string is "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS", or a similar string. This type of string is the installation directory specified by Microsoft to indicate the installation location of the operating system, and the 0 or 1 in the brackets may also be other numbers, such as 2, 3, 4, etc. The numbers in parentheses after rdisk indicate the number of disks in the system, 1 is the first disk of the system, and 2 is the second disk of the system. The number in parentheses after partition indicates the number of partitions of the disk, 1 is the first partition, and 2 is the second partition. The WINDOWS behind "\" is the specific installation directory of Windows, which can be a combination of other letters, numbers, and symbols, such as "Winnt", "WinXP", "123", etc., to indicate that the operating system is installed in the relevant directory . The combination of these information can indicate the installation directory of the Windows system on the corresponding disk. If the detection module does not read the string, it can determine that the corresponding operating system is not installed in the system, so it is no longer necessary to detect whether the corresponding application is installed; if the string is read, go to step 204 .

Step 204 , search for a file in the installation directory, and determine whether the corresponding operating system is installed in the installation directory by analyzing the content of the file, and if so, go to step 206 ; otherwise, go to step 205 .

Step 205, determine that the corresponding operating system is not installed in the system, and end the processing.

Step 206. Execute the above-mentioned detection process on whether the application program is installed.

It can be seen from the steps shown in FIG. 2 that if the computer does not have an operating system installed, it is not necessary to detect whether the relevant application program is installed based on the operating system. The reason for providing this solution for judging whether the operating system is installed is because: because different applications correspond to different operating systems, the application can only be valid under a specific operating system. Not only will the application not work properly, it may even cause the operating system to not work properly.

In addition, in order to simplify the processing of the computer, key application programs can also be directly installed in the computer. For this reason, the present invention provides another implementation scheme of directly installing the application program without detecting whether the application program is installed. This is achieved through the following steps:

Step A, setting an installation module for installing application programs in the computer, and saving the information of the application programs to be installed.

The installation module can be set in the BIOS or in a specific service area of the computer. The installation module can be started through BIOS. If the installation module is set in a specific server of the computer, the installation module can be started by the CPU after the computer is turned on.

In order to facilitate the installation module to obtain the saved application program information, the application program information and the installation module may be saved in the same location.

Step B, start the installation module after the computer is turned on, the installation module copies the pre-saved application program information to the corresponding root directory, creates the corresponding item of the application program under the corresponding branch of the registry, and creates the corresponding item in the corresponding The value under which the application is created and the data corresponding to that value.

Through the above two steps, the computer can automatically install the application program.

Since the application program cannot provide its own functions for the operating system even if the application program is reinstalled when the operating system is not installed, the present invention also adds an additional function to the above steps A and B on the basis of the above steps A and B. The solution for detecting whether the operating system is installed or not is the solution shown in FIG. 2 , so details will not be repeated here. The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the solutions of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (15)

1, a kind of application program detection method is characterized in that, this method may further comprise the steps:

A. in computing machine, be provided for detecting the detection module whether application program installs;

B. behind computer booting, start this detection module, judge by this detection module whether the relevant information of application program is saved, if, determine that then this application program is mounted, otherwise, determine the incorrect installation of this application program.

2, method according to claim 1 is characterized in that among the described step a that described detection module is arranged in the basic input-output system BIOS of computing machine, perhaps is arranged in the particular service area of computing machine.

3, method according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described behind computer booting the start detection module be: start this detection module by the BIOS in the computing machine.

4, method according to claim 1 is characterized in that among the described step b, the relevant information of described application program is saved and comprises: have this application program under the respective directories, and have the registry information of this application program under the respective branch of registration table;

The relevant information of described application program is not saved and comprises: do not preserve this application program under the respective directories, and/or do not preserve the registry information of this application program under the respective branch of registration table.

5, method according to claim 4 is characterized in that, described registry information comprises the respective items of this application program in registration table, is kept at application program value and the pairing data of this value under this respective items;

Among the step b, the registry information of not preserving this application program under the respective branch of described registration table is: do not have the respective items of this application program under the respective branch of registration table, or do not have the application program value under the respective items of this application program and/or do not exist application program to be worth pairing data.

6, method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, after described step b determines the incorrect installation of this application program, further comprise: computing machine shows that this application program does not have correct information of installing.

7, method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, after described step b determines the incorrect installation of this application program, further comprises: reinstall this application program according to the application information of preserving in advance in the computing machine.

8, method according to claim 7 is characterized in that, describedly reinstalls this application program according to the application information of preserving in advance in the computing machine and comprises:

The application information of preserving is in advance copied under the corresponding catalogue;

And/or under the respective branch of registration table, create the respective items of this application program, and under this respective items, create the value of this application program and this is worth pairing data;

And/or under the respective items of registration table respective branch, create the value of this application program;

And/or under the respective items of registration table respective branch, create the pairing data of value of this application program.

9, according to any described method in the claim 1 to 8, it is characterized in that among the described step b, before whether the relevant information of judging application program by described detection module is saved, further comprise:

B1. by described detection module judge this application program based on operating system whether install, if then continue to carry out the step whether relevant information of judging application program is saved; Otherwise, finish this treatment scheme.

10, method according to claim 9 is characterized in that, among the described step b1, described judge this application program based on operating system whether install and may further comprise the steps:

B11. check system guides the activation subregion on the hard disk;

B12. search the operating system associative directory under the catalogue in this activation subregion, and read operating system relevant character string under this associative directory, if read, then determine the installation directory of operating system according to the relevant character string that reads, and determine whether to have installed corresponding operating system by the content of checking file under this installation directory, otherwise, directly determine this application program institute based on not installation of operating system.

11, a kind of application program installation method is characterized in that, this method may further comprise the steps:

A, in computing machine, be provided for the installed module of set up applications, and preserve application information to be installed;

B, computing machine are after start, start this installed module, this installed module copies to the application information of preserving under the corresponding catalogue, creates the respective items of this application program under the respective branch of registration table, and creates the value of this application program and should be worth pairing data under this respective items.

12, method according to claim 11 is characterized in that, described installed module is arranged among the BIOS of computing machine, perhaps is arranged in the particular service area of computing machine.

13, method according to claim 12 is characterized in that, the described installed module that starts behind computer booting is: start this installed module by the BIOS in the computing machine.

14, according to any described method in the claim 11 to 13, it is characterized in that among the described step B, after installed module starts, and before carrying out the subsequent duplicate application information and creating respective items, further comprise:

B1, installed module judge this application program based on operating system whether install, if then continue to carry out the subsequent duplicate application information and create the operation of respective items; Otherwise, finish this treatment scheme.

15, method according to claim 14 is characterized in that among the described step B1, described judge this application program based on operating system whether install and comprise:

Activation subregion on B11, the check system guiding hard disk;

B12, search the operating system associative directory under the catalogue in this activation subregion, and read operating system relevant character string under this associative directory, if read, then determine the installation directory of operating system according to the relevant character string that reads, and determine whether to have installed corresponding operating system by the content of checking file under this installation directory, otherwise, directly determine this application program institute based on not installation of operating system.

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