- Open the command prompt of windows
- Type
wmic
- On the wmic prompt type the
output
command followed by the path of the txt file and the command to list the programs. It is going to be like the following:
/output:C:\Users\<yourUser>\Documents\programsInstalled\listOfProgramsInstalledWin10.txt product get name,version
- Wait for the wmic prompt get back to you again and you'll know it has finished listing the files into the txt file
The solution below was gotten from this stackoverflow response.
import winreg
def foo(hive, flag):
aReg = winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, hive)
aKey = winreg.OpenKey(aReg, r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall",
0, winreg.KEY_READ | flag)
count_subkey = winreg.QueryInfoKey(aKey)[0]
software_list = []
for i in range(count_subkey):
software = {}
try:
asubkey_name = winreg.EnumKey(aKey, i)
asubkey = winreg.OpenKey(aKey, asubkey_name)
software['name'] = winreg.QueryValueEx(asubkey, "DisplayName")[0]
try:
software['version'] = winreg.QueryValueEx(asubkey, "DisplayVersion")[0]
except EnvironmentError:
software['version'] = 'undefined'
try:
software['publisher'] = winreg.QueryValueEx(asubkey, "Publisher")[0]
except EnvironmentError:
software['publisher'] = 'undefined'
software_list.append(software)
except EnvironmentError:
continue
return software_list
software_list = foo(winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY) + foo(winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY) + foo(winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, 0)
for software in software_list:
print('Name=%s, Version=%s, Publisher=%s' % (software['name'], software['version'], software['publisher']))
print('Number of installed apps: %s' % len(software_list))
Thanks for this script, is it possible to also get the path of the program's eexecutable?