General Notes Windows.md

PowerShell

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

Obtaining a list of programs from a remote system:

• Invoke-command -computer remote_pc_name {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize }

Here is a script that will pull a list of software that is installed on the users system:

$listsoftware= Get-ChildItem HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

$names = $listsoftware |foreach-object {Get-ItemProperty $_.PsPath}

foreach ($name in $names)
{
    Write-Host $name.Displayname
}

WMI:

• Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Select-Object -Property Name > C:\InstalledSoftwareList.txt

Reviewing Installed Windows Features

• Get-WindowsFeature | Where-Object {$_.InstallState -eq 'Installed'}

Wmic

Note: Microsoft has planned to deprecrate this program in new versions of Windows. The commands used can be slow to run but it will return the results it needed:

• wmic /output:C:\InstalledSoftwareList.txt product get name,version

Saving it to a text file:

• wmic product get name,version /format:csv > C:\InstalledSoftware.csv