Use "Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC)" to get the list of all installed programs
Windows comes with a command line version of the Management Instrumentation (WMIC). To get the list of all installed programs in a text file, simply enter the following command in a prompt: wmic product > c:\product.txt *********************************************************** To get a list of installed apps on a remote PC you can do the command: wmic /node:"PC NAME" product list and redirect it to a file using file redirections *********************************************************** To get the List of installed Windows Updates using WMIC: wmic qfe get > c:\list.txt