Get a List of all Installed Programs in Vista from your Command Line

Here’s a quick way to list all the programs installed on your computer using the command line interface. You can also export the list to an HTML or text file for printing.

The first thing we need to do is open a command Prompt.

1. Click the Start Orb and type CMD in the search box.
2. Click cmd.exe at the top of the search results.
3. At the Cmd prompt type wmic and hit enter.
4. You will now see wmic:root\cli>Type product get name,version hit enter.

Now after a few moments all you’re installed programs with their version numbers will be listed.

If you want to export the list to a HTML file, type /output:c:\ProgramList.htm product get name,version
or if you prefer a text file type /output:c:\ProgramList.txt product get name,version

You can also change the name and location of the file by replacing “c” and Programlist.txt to whatever you prefer.

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