software auditing...

[phatcow]

is there software that exists that would take a inventory of software on computers accross the network?

it can be run on the user's machine if need be...

 

[Zwingle]

Many companies make software inventory software.....Peregreine is one......Network Associates makes Event Orchestrator that has a plug in to do this......do a google search for software inventory...... what we use here at my company will even remove software that is not supposed to be on the pc.....like screensavers, games and such, we run it about once a month to remove....but the inventory runs at login.