Sometimes it can be useful to create a list of all the software programs installed on a Windows PC. It can be useful to give it to a friend by recommending programs to be installed or to publish it on the internet or simply to know exactly what programs are on the computer.
The easiest and most known way to have the list of installed programs is to use the Control Panel, in the Programs and Features utility .
Here however there is no possibility to export the list to a file or for printing.
It is therefore worth knowing what better solutions are there to create the list of programs installed on a PC.
There are other solutions to export a list of all installed programs to a text file so that it can be shared or transformed easily.
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Without using external programs, you can save the list of all the programs installed on a Windows PC in a text file with a command on the command prompt.
Press the Windows-R keys to open the Run box, type cmd and press Enter .
Then run the wmic command to open the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line command line instrumentation.
Then run the command (you can copy and paste):
/output:c:\listaprogrammi.txt product get name, version, installlocation
In C: a text file will then appear which, if open, contains the list of programs.
If you prefer a different way we can create the list of installed programs in other ways :
1) With Powershell
From the Windows Start menu, search for Powershell and open it.
On the blue window, which is a more advanced command prompt, run the command: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Select-Object -Property Name, Vendor, InstallDate, Language, Version | Out-GridView
The list is a list of programs with the installation date, developer, language and version indicated.
2) Belarc Advisor is the program to do a complete PC review which also creates the list of installed programs.
3) CCleaner, the famous program to clean Windows from obsolete files, also has the function of uninstalling programs.
From here, the list of programs can be saved to a text file.
4) Geek Uninstaller, among the best programs to uninstall software, also allows you to export the list of software as HTML files.
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