Where can I find all of the COM objects that can be created in Powershell?

Question

In Powershell I can create COM objects which can be used, 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?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/660319/where-can-i-find-all-of-the-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:SoftwareClasses -ea 0| ? {$_.PSChildName -match '^w+.w+$' -and
(gp "$($_.PSPath)CLSID" -ea 0)} | ft PSChildName

let us know if it works!