Discover Application Installations

Discover Application Installations

Problem

Need list of program installations for computer.

Solution

Use get-wmiobject command in Windows PowerShell

1.       Go to and select Windows Start  

2.       Type PowerShell, and select the Windows PowerShell application

3.       Copy and paste the following command:

get-wmiobject Win32_Product | Format-Table IdentifyingNumber, Name, LocalPackage -AutoSize | out-file -filepath "C:\Users\[username]\Downloads\installs.txt"

Replace [username] with your username.

Once the application returns to the “prompt” you can close the application by selecting the X in the upper right corner of the application window.

The prompt resembles this illustration 

Please send the output file installs.txt that now exists at: C:\Users\[username]\Downloads\ within your file explorer to your Information Technology contact that requested this file. 

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