Yes Mick, thx, I know that ... I just thought that MS already provided such tools like they provided the sporder.exe along with the LSP. Viv On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:42:01 -0700, Mick wrote : >Okay, I see what you're after now. You meant the LSP category flags that are >returned from a call to WSCGetProviderInfo for LSPs and >WSCGetApplicationCategory for applications. I should have read your post more >carefully. > >It shouldn't be too difficult to write a utility that calls >WSCGetProviderInfo to retrieve the LSPs category flags. All you need is the >GUID for the provider. > >To determine which LSPs would be loaded for a specific application, you >would need to call WSCGetApplicationCategory for the application, and then >call WSCGetProviderInfo for each provider in the catalog and compare the bits >for each provider to those of the application. > >"Viviana Vc" wrote: >> sporder.exe provides you with a lot of info, but not with the LSP flags >> for Vista (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb513664.aspx).