Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

Maria Sophia wrote on 10/9/2026 3:40 PM:

Is there a way to get a reasonably accurate list of installed programs?

-- NOTE: The reason I care is to get a brutally honest psychological assessment. https://xdaforums.com/t/what-kind-of-person-are-you-based-solely-on-the-apps-you-installed-or-removed-on-your-device-the-results-are-enlightening-when-you-check-others.4804467/
What kind of person are you? [Based solely on the apps you installed (or removed) on your device? The results are enlightening when you check others!]

I recommend you get the evaluation from a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist, not from fiddling around with computer related statistical trivia.

I think you would benefit, and maybe get some relief from the OCD suffering.

Good luck. I hope you make progress.


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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

On 10/9/26 13:40, Maria Sophia wrote:

Is it even possible?

This nets a list of most (but not all) of the apps that I've installed:
dir "C:\app\" /s /a:d /o:n /b > directories.txt
But it's almost ten thousand lines.

The list of your android apps, which you've posted at least twice, is
merely one thousand lines.

This is shorter:
(Get-ChildItem "C:\app" -Directory -Recurse).Name | Sort-Object -Unique | Set-Content "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\unique-folder-names.txt"
But it's five thousand lines.

Shorter, but the list of your android apps, which you've posted at least twice, is merely one thousand lines.

Is there a way to get a reasonably accurate list of installed programs?
-- NOTE: The reason I care is to get a brutally honest psychological assessment. https://xdaforums.com/t/what-kind-of-person-are-you-based- solely-on-the-apps-you-installed-or-removed-on-your-device-the-results- are-enlightening-when-you-check-others.4804467/ What kind of person are
you? [Based solely on the apps you installed (or removed) on your
device? The results are enlightening when you check others!]

Got it, you want a *brutally honest* psychological assessment.
Do not try to base this solely on apps installed, that misses the point.
The kind of person you are is revealed when you give yourself a pat on
the back, followed by the thousand-line list of android apps on your
phone again. You are nauseating.


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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

Old McDonald wrote on 10/9/2026 5:11 PM:

On 10/9/26 13:40, Maria Sophia wrote:

Is it even possible?

Got it, you want a *brutally honest* psychological assessment.
Do not try to base this solely on apps installed

I have tried to broach this subject with "Maria", aka Arlen.

But I think he/she is not yet ready to accept any help.

Maybe someday she/he might be more receptive. OCD can be a true hell for
some.


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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

On 10/9/26 18:50, Maria Sophia wrote:

Hank Rogers wrote:

Do not try to base this solely on apps installed

I have tried to broach this subject

The fact both of you can only troll, begs the questions of both of you:

1. *Do you both really know absolutely nothing about anything?*
(Because your "value", based on your output, appears to indicate that.)

2. *Do you both really have no helpful bones in your entire bodies?*
(That is, are you both as despicably unprepossessing, as you appear?)

Anyway, the technical question is a valid one, even if the trolls have infested this thread to the point that responding to them rewards them.

For people who are (a) helpful and (b) knowledgeable, do you know if there
is any method to get all the apps that are installed on a Windows PC?

"The reason I care is to get a brutally honest psychological assessment"

You got exactly what you *asked* for.
Problem is, it wasn't what you wished for.

PLONK

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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:40:35 -0700, Maria Sophia wrote:

Is it even possible?

This nets a list of most (but not all) of the apps that I've installed:
dir "C:\app\" /s /a:d /o:n /b > directories.txt
But it's almost ten thousand lines.

This is shorter:
(Get-ChildItem "C:\app" -Directory -Recurse).Name | Sort-Object -Unique | Set-Content "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\unique-folder-names.txt"
But it's five thousand lines.

Is there a way to get a reasonably accurate list of installed programs?

I'd generate a list of all EXE files. Generate a hash for each of the EXE
file. Remove duplicate hashes (i.e. identical EXEs by file content).

Then for EXE files which have version information, compare and check their defined application/product name, to further trim down the list such as one application which have multiple program versions. e.g. old/backup version of web browser EXEs.

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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

On Sat, 10/10/2026 7:14 AM, Maria Sophia wrote:

I've been on the Windows newsgroup for decades, and yet I don't think
anyone has ever asked this question...

You could try

winget list

and that might be a superset of what is in Programs and Features control panel.

For portable or loose executables (not in TrustedInstaller folders),
they could be just about anywhere.

Paul

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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

Maria Sophia formulated on Saturday :

You could try

winget list

just wondering whether this is normal... :-(

WindowsAppRuntime.1.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.2
1.2.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.2
1.2.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.2
< 1.2.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.3 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3
1.3.3 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.3 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3
1.3.3 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.3 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3
1.3.2 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.3 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3
< 1.3.2 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4
1.4.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4
1.4.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4
< 1.4.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4
1.4.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4
1.4.4 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5
1.5.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5
1.5.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5
1.5.8 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5
1.5.8 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5
1.5.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.8 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.8 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.6 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6
1.6.4 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7
1.7.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7
1.7.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7
1.7.8 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7
1.7.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7
1.7.6 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7
1.7.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
> 1.8.10 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
> 1.8.10 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.10 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.9 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.8 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.7 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.6 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.5 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.4 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.3 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8
1.8.2 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2
2.5.1.0 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2
2.5.1.0 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2
2.4.0.0 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2
2.4.0.0 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2
2.3.1.0 winget
WindowsAppRuntime.2 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2
2.2.0.0 winget

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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

On Mon, 10/12/2026 5:17 AM, Maria Sophia wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

get-wingetPackage -name windowsAppRuntime

This is a good discussion because "accurate" is a primary operative.
And "installed" apps is the second main operative in this discussion.

Apparently, the output from Get-WinGetPackage lists the Windows App
Runtime packages that are currently installed on the computer.

get-wingetPackage -name windowsAppRuntime

get-wingetPackage : The term 'get-wingetPackage' is not recognized
as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client -Force -AllowClobber

get-wingetPackage -name windowsAppRuntime

Name Id Version Available Source
Windows App Runtime Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3 1.3.3 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 1.5.9 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 1.6.9 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 1.7.4 1.7.9 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 > 1.... winget

Apparently, winget search "Windows App Runtime" queries the online repository (the global store), showing every version of the runtime
that is available to download from Microsoft.

winget search "Windows App Runtime"

Name Id Version Source
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows App Runtime Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3 1.3.3 winget
Windows App Runtime Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 1.4.7 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.5 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.5 1.5.9 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.6 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6 1.6.9 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.7 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.7 1.7.9 winget
Windows App Runtime 1.8 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 1.8.10 winget
Windows App Runtime 2.0 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2 2.4.0 winget
Windows App Runtime 2.0 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2.0 2.0.1 winget

winget install Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.6

Found an existing package already installed.
Trying to upgrade the installed package...
No available upgrade found.
No newer package versions are available from the configured sources.

Are your results similar?

Large vats of hot soup to pour on the peasants. A lot of these
files are localization related (en-us or whatever).

grep WindowsAppRuntime nfi-c-out.txt | wc -l
8534

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8_8000.921.1539.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\NpuDetect\NPUDetect.dll
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8_8000.921.1539.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.Windows.AI.ContentModerationInternal.winmd
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2_2.5.1.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.Windows.AI.MachineLearning.dll
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.2_2.5.1.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Video.dll
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2608.41.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool\onnxruntime.dll
C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS.2_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Phone.dll

You would think WinSxS would be a large enough vat, for all occasions.
Whereas these vats are updated on a relatively high frequency basis
via Reliability Monitor citation. Maybe we could think of the WinSxS
as the "low frequency" "Patch Tuesday" vat, and whatever this purpose
serves, is the "high frequency" "stealth" vat. My reliability info
has scrolled off, since I did a Repair Install, so I cannot give
an example of a WindowsAppRuntime set of installs.

I think the NPUDetect routine is going to be somewhat disappointed on my machine :-)
My machine is more DialupNetworking and LongWalksOnTheBeach material.
You would think there would be Detect routines for those.
I guess I just have no interest in boatloads of INT8 multiplies.

"Riders On The Storm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2-FPlvY58

Paul

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Subject: Re: How can we get an ACCURATE list of unique programs installed on WIndows?

<snip>
try the free for personal use Belarc Advisor

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