Programming

You can get a list of all the available software installed on your Windows System. The below Power Shell script will put all the info into a file and in table view so that you can print it out.

You can get this infomoration several ways:

• PowerShell - appears to be most detailed
• CMD via wmic - gives a very basic report
• Python - more to come

PowerShell

1. Go to start menu and search for Power Shell -> right-click and open as ADMIN
2. The copy/past the below scrip and make any needed changes
3. You txt file will end-up at the root of drive C:\ unless you changed the destination
4. Code Below will be in table format and the returning information may be truncated to 15 charactors

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

1. The below code will give you a list op programs in data format. This will return all fields in full view
2. you should notice the | Format-Table - AutoSize has been removed

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate, InstallLocation, URLUpdateInfo > C:\InstalledProgramsPS_01102019_1433.txt

•  Listed below are most of the Window's 7 fields you can get information on.

AssignmentType,Caption, Description,HelpLink,HelpTelephone,IdentifyingNumber,InstallDate,InstallDate2,InstallLocation,InstallSource,InstallState, Language, LocalPackage, Name,PackageCache, PackageCode,PackageName, ProductID, RegCompany, RegOwner, SKUNumber, Transforms, URLInfoAbout, URLUpdateInfo, Vendor,Version, WordCount,

 CMD - wmic

1. Open your start meny and search CMD -> open as admin
2. In the command window type wmic - this start the wmic prompt
3. copy/paste the below code - modify as needed to fit your system.

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

Python

1. This is based on Python v2 and not tested on every system

[code]## Python Version 2
# This scripts allows to get a list of all installed products in a windows
# machine. The code uses ctypes becuase there were a number of issues when
# trying to achieve the same win win32com.client
# Code from this publisher (Thanks) - https://ashishpython.blogspot.com/2013/12/listing-all-installed-applications-on.html
from collections import namedtuple
from ctypes import byref, create_unicode_buffer, windll
from ctypes.wintypes import DWORD
from itertools import count
 
# defined at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370101(v=VS.85).aspx
UID_BUFFER_SIZE = 39
PROPERTY_BUFFER_SIZE = 256 
ERROR_MORE_DATA = 234
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER = 87
ERROR_SUCCESS = 0
ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS = 259 
ERROR_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT = 1605 
 
# diff propoerties of a product, not all products have all properties
PRODUCT_PROPERTIES = [u'Language',
                      u'ProductName',
                      u'PackageCode',
                      u'Transforms',
                      u'AssignmentType',
                      u'PackageName',
                      u'InstalledProductName',
                      u'VersionString',
                      u'RegCompany',
                      u'RegOwner',
                      u'ProductID',
                      u'ProductIcon',
                      u'InstallLocation',
                      u'InstallSource',
                      u'InstallDate',
                      u'Publisher',
                      u'LocalPackage',
                      u'HelpLink',
                      u'HelpTelephone',
                      u'URLInfoAbout',
                      u'URLUpdateInfo',] 
 
# class to be used for python users :)
Product = namedtuple('Product', PRODUCT_PROPERTIES)
 
 
def get_property_for_product(product, property, buf_size=PROPERTY_BUFFER_SIZE):
    """Retruns the value of a fiven property from a product."""
    property_buffer = create_unicode_buffer(buf_size)
    size = DWORD(buf_size)
    result = windll.msi.MsiGetProductInfoW(product, property, property_buffer,
                                           byref(size))
    if result == ERROR_MORE_DATA:
        return get_property_for_product(product, property,
                2 * buf_size)
    elif result == ERROR_SUCCESS:
        return property_buffer.value
    else:
        return None
 
 
def populate_product(uid):
    """Return a Product with the different present data."""
    properties = []
    for property in PRODUCT_PROPERTIES:
        properties.append(get_property_for_product(uid, property))
    return Product(*properties) 
 
 
def get_installed_products_uids():
    """Returns a list with all the different uid of the installed apps."""
    # enum will return an error code according to the result of the app
    products = []
    for i in count(0):
        uid_buffer = create_unicode_buffer(UID_BUFFER_SIZE)
        result = windll.msi.MsiEnumProductsW(i, uid_buffer)
        if result == ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS:
            # done interating over the collection
            break
        products.append(uid_buffer.value)
    return products
 
 
def get_installed_products():
    """Returns a collection of products that are installed in the system."""
    products = []
    for puid in  get_installed_products_uids():
        products.append(populate_product(puid))
    return products 
 
 
def is_product_installed_uid(uid):
    """Return if a product with the given id is installed.
 
    uid Most be a unicode object with the uid of the product using
    the following format {uid}
    """
    # we try to get the VersisonString for the uid, if we get an error it means
    # that the product is not installed in the system.
    buf_size = 256
    uid_buffer = create_unicode_buffer(uid)
    property = u'VersionString'
    property_buffer = create_unicode_buffer(buf_size)
    size = DWORD(buf_size)
    result = windll.msi.MsiGetProductInfoW(uid_buffer, property, property_buffer,
                                           byref(size))
    if result == ERROR_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT:
        return False
    else:
        return True

apps=get_installed_products()
for app in apps:
    print app.InstalledProductName[/code]

You can get more information from here:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/list-installed-programs-windows/