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How To: Get List Of Installed Apps In Vista/Windows 7 Without Any Software

Posted January 8, 2009 – 2:13 pm in: Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides, XP Tweaks
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Recently, I was going through a blog which featured Belarc Advisor software to create the list of  installed applications on Windows so that you can install all those applications when you reinstall Windows. To be frank, I didn’t know about Belarc Advisor as I was using a built-in Windows feature which does my job without fail.

 

Last week, I blogged a guide similar to this which helps you generate list of running processes and services in .txt format. By following this guide you will be able to generate a text file which contains all the installed programs on your Windows machine.

Installlist

If you are not in mood to install Belarc software, you can read on this small guide to create your entire installed applications list in .txt format.

 

Procedure:

1. Open command prompt with admin rights. That is, type in cmd either in Start menu search box or in Run dialog box and hit Ctrl + Shift +Enter to open the command prompt with admin rights.Alternatively you can also go to All Programs > Accessories and right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

2. Click continue button if you get User Account Control (UAC) Prompt.

3. Here in the Command Prompt, type WMIC and hit enter. Once you type hit enter to see below message.

command1

4. Next, you need to type the following command:

/output:C:\InstallList.txt product get name,version

command2

Where “C” is the drive letter where Windows will store the installed applications list. You can also change the name of the output file and drive letter if you want to modify the output location. Also note that this trick should work in Windows 2000 & XP operating systems without problems.

However Belarc Advisor is also good as it creates a detailed list installed apps, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status and displays the results in your Web browser.

  Tags: Vista
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13 Comments

  1. Davo Martinez
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

    I googled ‘list installed apps’ and came up to this page. I am using XP and noticed that the listing did not have all of my installed apps. I sorted the list and noticed that my 7-Zip was not listed, then I noticed that µTorrent was not listed as well. I thought maybe non-alphabetic characters were not displayed but then I also noticed another program called AP Guitar Tuner was not on the list either.

  2. Allison Christiansen
    Posted May 10, 2010 at 4:07 am | Permalink

    Is there a way to make the list alphabetical? Kinda hard to figure out if there’s anythign missing …

  3. remoki
    Posted November 2, 2010 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

    Don’t work for x64 system !!!

  4. Steve
    Posted December 7, 2010 at 5:10 am | Permalink

    It works on my win7 x64 system.

    @Alison:
    I copied the list into excel and sorted the first column alphabetically.

  5. Scotty
    Posted January 3, 2011 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

    Doesn’t list all the installed apps (only about 1/3).

  6. Mujeesh
    Posted January 11, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    Thanks buddy…

  7. sonylaptopfrank
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:53 pm | Permalink

    hello,

    Doesn’t work on Windows seven 64, product get name replies: description = invalid class

    i cannot start my windows 7 in safe more or use recovery function, what can i do ?

    problem happened after windows 7 update, then after restart windows defender asked me to restart again, and then blue screen or auto restart forever.

    i would like to disable or uninstall windows defender as i can access the command prompt but i can’t find how to do ?

    And do you know how to uninstall windows latest update with command prompt ?

    Thanks for help.

  8. bpara
    Posted May 16, 2011 at 1:35 pm | Permalink

    i need to know what are all uninstalled software since os was installed in particular pc.

  9. Chris
    Posted July 14, 2011 at 8:05 pm | Permalink

    bpara- You need to know the list of software that’s NOT on your PC anymore? Really???

    I ran this on Win7 64bit and it worked great. Exactly what I was looking for!

  10. Sean
    Posted July 30, 2011 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    When using WMIC to create a list of installed apps it only shows the ones installed using MSI(Windows Installer). So some of the apps will not show up.

  11. Atif Mushtaq
    Posted November 21, 2011 at 1:11 am | Permalink

    Thanks Man :) you rocks

  12. Bill Dixon
    Posted March 27, 2012 at 12:32 am | Permalink

    Is there any way to run this in batch mode? I’d like to put this into a script I wrote that collects system information like this (perl in my case, but a lot of people write batch scripts also)

  13. Charley Rouse
    Posted November 24, 2012 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    This will do a similar task, saving the Directory Listing into a text file at the Root of the C:\ Drive call “All_Progs.txt”

    Start –> Run and Copy and Paste the following:

    ============
    cmd /k cd \ && cd “C:\Program Files” && DIR > “C:\All_progs.txt”
    =============
    Explanation:

    cmd : Windows CLI Command Prompt
    /k : Do not prompt for input
    CD : Change Directory
    \ : Root Folder (C:\)
    && : Join together Commands
    CD : Change Directory
    “C:\Program Files” (Quote Marks are Required)
    && : Join together Commands
    DIR: Create Driectory Listing
    > : Output to
    “C:\All_progs.txt” : Location and name of output listing

    Hope it Helps someone : )

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