Check if application is installed in registry

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After searching and troubleshooting, I got it to work this way:

public static bool checkInstalled (string c_name)
{
    string displayName;

    string registryKey = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall";
    RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(registryKey);
    if (key != null)
    {
        foreach (RegistryKey subkey in key.GetSubKeyNames().Select(keyName => key.OpenSubKey(keyName)))
        {
            displayName = subkey.GetValue("DisplayName") as string;
            if (displayName != null && displayName.Contains(c_name))
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        key.Close();
    }

    registryKey = @"SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall";
    key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(registryKey);
    if (key != null)
    {
        foreach (RegistryKey subkey in key.GetSubKeyNames().Select(keyName => key.OpenSubKey(keyName)))
        {
            displayName = subkey.GetValue("DisplayName") as string;
            if (displayName != null && displayName.Contains(c_name))
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        key.Close();
    }
    return false;
}

And I simply just call it using

if(checkInstalled("Application Name"))

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