Altiris 7 Installed Software Report

This report displays the number of discovered computers, the percentage that have Altiris Agent installed, the number of Altiris Agents installed, the number of Altiris Agents that were installed via push install and the number of Altiris Agents that were installed by other means. List All Installed Software Returns a list of all software installed on a computer, whether or not by Windows Installer. This script reads installed applications from the registry. 3.9 Star (54). To provide feedback or report bugs in sample scripts, please start a new discussion on the Discussions tab for this script.

'The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) is a command-line and scripting interface that simplifies the use of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and systems managed through WMI.'

This explains how to use WMIC to pull a list of all installed programs on a computer, so that you can review the list and determine if there are any unwanted programs installed.

3 Steps total

Step 1: Open an Administrative (Elevated) Command Prompt

Click the Start button, click Run, Type 'Runas user:Administrator@DOMAIN cmd'.

When prompted, enter the Domain Administrator password.

Step 2: Run WMIC

Type 'wmic' and press Enter.

Step 3: Pull list of installed applications

At the 'wmic:rootcli>' prompt, type the following command:

/node:TargetComputerNameHere product get name, version, vendor

After a few moments, a list will be displayed in the command prompt detailing the programs installed on the target computer.

References

• Useful WMIC Queries

9 Comments

• Jalapeno
  jhavens Oct 20, 2016 at 04:45pm

  If I wanted the command to output only certain applications, like Adobe, Visual Studio, and SQL Server, what would be the proper syntax? Preferably, I would like it to output just the 'parent' applications. For example, running the command above as is, returns a number of entries (amongst others) containing 'SQL', as some of them are 'sub-components' of the actual SQL server installation. I am just wanting the names and versions of the over arching parent applications, aforementioned. Any comments and/or guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!

• Tabasco
  ScottM1979 Oct 24, 2016 at 03:43pm

  Print the names and versions of installed software:
  ---- wmic product get Name, Version

  List all installed Microsoft products:
  ---- wmic product where 'Vendor like '%Microsoft%' get Name, Version

  List installed products that have Office in their names:
  ---- wmic product where 'Name like '%Office%' get Name, Version

  To save the wmic output to a file:
  ---- wmic /output:'C:software.txt' product get Name, Version

• Poblano
  Hartmania Jun 14, 2017 at 02:23pm

  Thanks for the info. You are missing the leading forward slash before user: runas /user:username@domain cmd

• Serrano
  antoniosalieri Jan 25, 2018 at 04:06pm

  Magnifique. This gave me exactly what I wanted. Thank you!!!

• Pimiento
  joseralex May 29, 2018 at 07:27am

  Beautiful and simple solution.. Touchmate tm-mid785 hard reset. it works to pull out the installed patches. very good.
  Thank you
  Alex

• Thai Pepper
  Peter (Action1) Sep 14, 2018 at 08:26pm

  I would suggest using Powershell instead of WMIC - with Powershell you can sort, filter, save to CVS and even query multiple computers:

  1. Get list of installed programs:
  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer RemoteComputerName

  2. Select specific columns:
  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer RemoteComputerName Select-Object Name, Version

  3. Sort results:
  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer RemoteComputerName Select-Object Name, Version Sort-Object Name

  4. Filter results:
  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer RemoteComputerName Select-Object Name, Version Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Name -like 'Microsoft*'}

  5. Save to CSV file:
  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer RemoteComputerName Select-Object Name, Version Export-CSV 'c:file.csv' -Append -NoTypeInformation

  6. Query multiple computers:
  - computers from a text file: Get-Content -Path c:computers.txt ForEach-Object {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer $_.Name}
  - computers from AD domain: Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -Like “Windows 10*”} ForEach-Object {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Computer $_.Name}

  Source: https://www.action1.com/kb/list_of_installed_software_on_remote_computer.html

  Also Action1 has a free cloud-based service that basically does the same: https://www.action1.com/f/Free-Installed-Software-sw-1.html

• Serrano
  DerickBrown Dec 11, 2018 at 07:17pm

  Only returns 32-bit programs. I need ALL programs for my list.

• Tabasco
  Chris537082 Oct 31, 2019 at 05:57pm

  I know this is old, but from what I've tested, the WMIC doesn't get ALL installed programs.
  On Server SBS2011, and ran this. There is a small list (about 10) programs that show up in Programs and Features and not from the WMIC command.

  Found this https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/647939-show-all-programs-using-wmic-command

  which is indicating in one of the posts that WMIC only lists WMI Installer installed programs.

  I did not find a good command line solution for finding all installed programs. I ended up using CCleaner and exporting that info to text file(csv format).

• Pimiento
  spicehead-k54jh Apr 1, 2020 at 03:05pm

  What do I need to do to make this command get the installed applications on a list of computers? I would like for it to create a separate .csv file for each computer.