In this Pureinfotech how-to, you’ll learn how to create a list of all your installed applications in Windows using the Command Prompt, and export it to a text file.
There are many scenarios where you would want to do this, for example, you may want to create a list of all your applications for inventory purposes, or if you are planning to perform a clean installation of Windows and you want to know all the applications you need to reinstall, etc.
Create a list of all your installed applications
1. Click on Start, type cmd, from the search results, right-click cmd.exe and select Run as administrator.
2. Once in the Command Prompt, the following and press Enter:
3. Next, type the following and press Enter (this could take several seconds):
Then to finish type the following and press Enter:
quit
exit
The above command will create and export a list of all your installed applications in Windows to a text file with the name ApplicationList.txt (that you can change to any name you want) in the drive C.
This should work in Windows 7 as well as in Windows Vista, and in other previous versions of Windows.