Itemized List of All Installed Programs (I want to print this list)

All installed programs that appear in Start menu are in folder: C:\Users\your name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Tonys317 said:

I know more than a few times I asked for tech support. Someone here had me run a program. While it did many things one thing it did, it created a text file with all the major (or all) programs installed on my computer. I guess that is necessary when helping me troubleshoot?

I want a text file of the majority of programs installed on the computer. I'd like to be able to edit this and leave notes. Even if not designed for this - which program should I use?

Belarc is quite good with much detail info, but not to handy for editing and adding notes. Great resource, though, and gives info about Apps/Programs and a whole lot more. Should be in your tool box in any case.

CCleaner will work, also, plain text file, which you can edit with Notepad.

If you don't want to use a 3rd party just for that, Windows Powershell can do it quite well.



This may be just what you're looking for:

Code:

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table –AutoSize

This one will produce a text file....sub your user name:

Code:

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table –AutoSize > C:\Users\Lori\Documents\InstalledPrograms-PS.txt

How to Create a List of Your Installed Programs on Windows

An example of the output. Can be edited with notepad, or Office Apps.