Retrieves information about installed applications.

Get-InstalledApplication [[-Name] <String>] [-Exact] [-WildCard] [-RegEx] [[-ProductCode] <String>] [-IncludeUpdatesAndHotfixes] [<CommonParameters>]

Retrieves information about installed applications by querying the registry. You can specify an application name, a product code, or both.

Returns information about application publisher, name & version, product code, uninstall string, install source, location, date, and application architecture.

-Name <String>

The name of the application to retrieve information for. Performs a contains match on the application display name by default.

-Exact [<SwitchParameter>]

Specifies that the named application must be matched using the exact name.

-WildCard [<SwitchParameter>]

Specifies that the named application must be matched using a wildcard search.

-RegEx [<SwitchParameter>]

Specifies that the named application must be matched using a regular expression search.

-ProductCode <String>

The product code of the application to retrieve information for.

-IncludeUpdatesAndHotfixes [<SwitchParameter>]

Include matches against updates and hotfixes in results.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------

PS C:>Get-InstalledApplication -Name 'Adobe Flash'

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------

PS C:>Get-InstalledApplication -ProductCode '{1AD147D0-BE0E-3D6C-AC11-64F6DC4163F1}'

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