Control Panel>Programs & Features>Right click empty space and choose the view you want. If it fits, Print Screen> Otherwise change View

 

Thanks Corday,
But 'Print Screen' is not what I did the last time. I was able somehow to import the (detail) info into Word and Excel. Errrr...

 

If you want a list of your installed programs, please try the following ....

• Click Search and type Powershell in the search box
• Right click on the Powershell icon and select Run as Adminstrator
• A Powershell window will open
• Copy/Type in the following command ...

Get-Package | Select Name, PackageFullName > "C:\ProgList.txt"

• ... hit Return
• A file named ProgList.txt will be created in the C:\ folder

PS. If you want a list of your Apps use the command ....

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Select Name, PackageFullName > "C:\AppList.txt"

 

Thanks Gary R,
That worked but I found my notes and they had a simpler method. in a Dos window type C:\apps.txt then hit enter. The go to C Drive root and double click on apps.txt. Then it can be copied and pasted in Word or Excel or where ever.

 

Going to have to be a bit more than that ...

C:\apps.txt

.... is just a location, not a Command, so if you type C:\apps.txt into a command window, all it will do is tell you that it does not recognise it ....

apps.txt is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

.... so if you have an apps.txt file present, and it is populated, then it must have been created at some earlier time by some other command.

 

Years back, probably in the days of Win98 or ME, I used to have a program which I think was called Installed Programs Printer

Closest I could find to it now is

https://installed-program-printer.software.informer.com/

Found it extremely useful when needing to reinstall.

 

If interested in a 3rd party app, you can download Belarc Advisor. Which lists all your apps and their product keys.

Download Belarc Advisor - MajorGeeks

Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.

www.majorgeeks.com

 

If interested in a 3rd party app, you can download Belarc Advisor. Which lists all your apps and their product keys.

Download Belarc Advisor - MajorGeeks

Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.

www.majorgeeks.com

I have used Belarc for years. I run it periodically on all my operational machines. It provides a lot of information. I save each set of results as PDFs and save them all.

 

FRST (which we use for analysing machines for malware) also contains a list of all the installed programs in its Addition.txt logfile.

Example (partial list from my PC) ...

==================== Installed Programs ======================

(Only the adware programs with "Hidden" flag could be added to the fixlist to unhide them. The adware programs should be uninstalled manually.)

7-Zip 22.01 (x64) (HKLM\...\7-Zip) (Version: 22.01 - Igor Pavlov)
Amazon Kindle (HKU\S-1-5-21-3200370660-1900560348-3654660666-1001\...\Amazon Kindle) (Version: 1.33.0.62002 - Amazon)
CCleaner (HKLM\...\CCleaner) (Version: 6.23 - Piriform)
EditPad Lite 8 v.8.3.1 (HKLM\...\EditPad Lite 8) (Version: v.8.3.1 - Just Great Software)
GIMP 2.10.32-1 (HKU\S-1-5-21-3200370660-1900560348-3654660666-1001\...\GIMP-2_is1) (Version: 2.10.32 - The GIMP Team)
Hash Calculator (HKLM-x32\...\{157D4DE7-1212-4B6E-9386-227606A800D0}}_is1) (Version:  - Ashisoft)

 

I did a little search. Would this be the command you were after?

Open CMD » wmic product get name,version

There are a bunch of variation possible (scroll down a bit).

How to Get List of Installed Programs in Windows 10/11? – TheITBros

In this simple guide we will show you 2 different ways on how to get list of installed programs in Windows 10, 8 or 7 by using built-in command line tools

theitbros.com

 

Check out a program named "uninstallview" from Nirsoft. This will create a list of all of your programs. The list can be saved as an HTML file and opened in Firefox and then printed as a report.pdf.

 

All that is also included in the link I provided earlier.

 

You can use Belarc or any utility that uninstall software.

Ccleaner has a tool and allows you to save the list to a text file.