Usually, in our System, we install various programs for our needs and we use them to get things done. For example, Adobe Reader to view the “PDF” files. Most of the time, we do not know what programs are really installed on the System. If we install more programs, the System may slow down and you need to look into the installed Programs and uninstall them which are NOT really required.
In this article, I would like to explain how to display the list of installed programs in the System.
There are several ways we can display the list of programs installed, but I will explain two of them here.
WMIC – Display list of installed programs
Step 1. Open command prompt in Windows.
Step 2. Run the below command. Windows will open Windows Management Interface Command (WMIC) tool to allow the user to RUN the commands to get the information about the System.
C:\> wmic
Step 3. WMIC opens its’ own command prompt. And the prompt looks like below.
wmic:root\cli>
Step 4: Enter the below command to display the output on the standard console.
wmic:root\cli>/output:STDOUT
Step 5: To list all the installed programs, type the below command. This list out all the installed programs’ name and version of the installed program.
wmic:root\cli>product get name, version
The output looks like below:
Name Version Microsoft Outlook Registry fixes 1.0 Facebook Video Calling 3.1.0.521 3.1.521 Outlook Diagnostics 2.1.0.20 MSXML 4.0 SP3 Parser (KB2758694) 4.30.2117.0 MSXML 4.0 SP3 Parser (KB2721691) 4.30.2114.0 WinZip 16.5 16.5.10095 MSXML 4.0 SP3 Parser 4.30.2100.0 Java 8 Update 171 8.0.1710.11 Adobe Flash Player 28 ActiveX 28.0.0.126 Adobe Reader XI (11.0.23) 11.0.23 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 4.7.02053 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 (CHS) 4.7.02053 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 (KOR) 4.7.02053 Google Update Helper 1.3.33.17 Adobe Flash Player 28 NPAPI 28.0.0.126 Device Installer x64 2.2 Microsoft Silverlight 5.1.50907.0 PuTTY release 0.70 (64-bit) 0.70.0.0 Microsoft Policy Platform 68.1.1010.0 Java Auto Updater 10.0.2.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 (JPN) 4.7.02053
Another simple way of seeing installed programs is, using “Programs and Features”.
Step 1. Go to “Control Panel”.
Step 2. Click on “Programs and Features”. Windows will display the list of programs installed in the System.
OR
You can type “appwiz.cpl” from the RUN application window or at the command prompt. Windows will open the “Programs and Features” window listing all the programs installed.
In the next article, I will explain how to display the installed programs, by developing a simple program using “C#”. So excited.? Lets’ wait for the next article. 🙂
(Raju)