How can we find the scope of installed packages?

[eabase]

Assuming a package have been installed with winget with or without the --scope options.

How can we find what scope a packages has been installed in?

[Trenly]

Winget uses the registry to determine which applications are installed and the scope. If the registry keys fall under HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ or HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ then it is a machine scope. If it falls under HKCU: instead of HKLM: then it is a user scope.

There isn't currently a way to show the installed scope except to query the registry manually.

[mdanish-kh]

While there isn't a way to query the scope of a particular installed app, you can list all apps of a particular scope installed on your machine and search the app you're looking for in the output of the following commands

List all user-scoped apps installed on your machine

winget list --scope user

List all machine-scoped apps (Requires you to run the shell as admin)

winget list --scope machine

If you only want to see apps that are available via the winget source, you can filter them by appending --source winget

[eabase]

Although I marked the above as an accepted answer, it would have made much more sense to be able to use: winget list --scope and actually have the scope shown in a scope column.

[mdanish-kh]

cc @denelon if the issue:

• Enhancements to list command #1155

may be updated with this request