FYI: Getting a list of programs that you installed on your OS...

[Elixer]

For those of you that are using win 7/8 and have many installed programs on there and you want to do a clean update to win10, but can't be bothered to dual boot to see what programs you have used before... the solution is:

Open up a command prompt (Admin), and type: wmic
at the next command prompt type:
/output:c:\MyPrograms.txt product get name,version
where c:\MyPrograms.txt can be any drive location and file name.

When done, it will make that text file with a listing of everything you have installed, showing name & version information.

 

[nerp]

Handy tip.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Handy tip.

I just feel stupid for not exploring a dual-boot configuration with an advantage of a leisurely transition in late 2015, after Win10 upgrades were made available. I've now created dual-boot Win7/Win10 configurations on three of the four household workstations.

My 91-year-old Moms uses the fourth of these, and has enough trouble dealing with legitimate pop-up messages from the KIS AV program or remembering how to use her e-mail. Getting her to update her windows skills is not a practical path, and the computer she's using -- built in 2010 from 2008 technology -- doesn't seem worth the trouble.

The "Handy tip" would certainly make things easier to move forward with the other three systems.

I'm just glad I got all this done, and we're only into the first three days of May.

 

[John Connor]

This should work too. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks, very interesting. where did you find that? Had no idea that was possible!

 

[Elixer]

I think it was from a technet article a long time ago...
I tend to use it to batch uninstall programs, instead of going through the control panel, as in
wmic product "whatever_the_name_is" call uninstall

Though, it is much more powerful than that, you can terminate programs, set cpu priority, and a ton of other stuff you can't do with the control panel.