Using C#/.NET is it possible to detect if a COM object is
installed/registered. For example, I want to check if the Google Earth COM
interface is installed. I known one method to do this is to just try to
create one of the COM object using the managed wrapper and if it throws an
exception then the COM interface is NOT installed. With Google this will not
work since if you create a google com object it will automaticly start Google
Earth..

There must be a way to query the list of COM object available/registered.
Any guidance would be helpful.

Thanks,
Dogman