[CL] quotes [Chin Huang]:  "The Running Object Table (ROT) is a globally accessible table listing           
objects running on the system.  This table only lists the applications          
that registered themselves in the table, but the major [Windows]                  
applications do so."  Notice that that could well be expressed as:  few [COM]
applications beside Office properly register themselves with ROT.  In any case,
part of the point is that ROT enumerates what's visible to [tcom].

Example code for introspection on the ROT appears at [https://web.archive.org/web/20080603143055/www.alexfedotov.com/samples/enumrot.asp]

[CL] has been thinking about how it'd be nice if [tcom] knew to do the same ...


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