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# https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2011/11/13/use-powershell-to-quickly-find-installed-software/ | |
# Example finding location of 7-zip | |
$computername=(get-childitem -path env:computername).value | |
$UninstallKey="SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall" | |
$reg=[microsoft.win32.registrykey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine',$computername) | |
$regkey=$reg.OpenSubKey($UninstallKey) | |
$subkeys=$regkey.GetSubKeyNames() | |
$array = @() | |
foreach($key in $subkeys){ | |
$thisKey=$UninstallKey+"\\"+$key | |
$thisSubKey=$reg.OpenSubKey($thisKey) | |
$obj = New-Object PSObject | |
$obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "ComputerName" -Value $computername | |
$obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DisplayName" -Value $($thisSubKey.GetValue("DisplayName")) | |
$obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DisplayVersion" -Value $($thisSubKey.GetValue("DisplayVersion")) | |
$obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "InstallLocation" -Value $($thisSubKey.GetValue("InstallLocation")) | |
$obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Publisher" -Value $($thisSubKey.GetValue("Publisher")) | |
$array += $obj | |
} | |
# $array | Where-Object { $_.DisplayName } | select ComputerName, DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher | ft -auto | |
# $array | Where-Object { $_.DisplayName -eq "7-Zip 16.02 (x64)"} | select DisplayName, InstallLocation| ft -auto | |
$array | Where-Object { $_.DisplayName -eq "7-Zip 16.02 (x64)"} | select InstallLocation |
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