Check, if an specific App is installed using PowerShell

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I want to check via PowerShell, if a specific product (like "Office" or "Visual Studio") is installed on the target computer, but I can not use any 3rd party PowerShell modules (because I want to give the script to some friends and here the script should work out of the box.

I found this PowerShell script that returns a list of all apps (also the path):

$INSTALLED = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* |  Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate, InstallLocation
$INSTALLED += Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate, InstallLocation
$INSTALLED | ?{ $_.DisplayName -ne $null } | sort-object -Property DisplayName -Unique | Format-Table -AutoSize

The only thing I need is to get the file-path (InstallLocation) for a specific product and store this in a Variable. I have no idea, how to perform this.

js2010 · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-07 13:49:24Z

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You can use get-package. Not all apps have an installlocation entry.

get-package 7-zip* | % { $_.metadata['installlocation'] }

C:\Program Files\7-Zip\

Note that Netbeans installs break get-itemproperty because of the invalid NoModify registry entry [still true in 2023]. [NETBEANS-2523] Netbeans 64-bit creates invalid nomodify value in windows registry for years - ASF JIRA

Get-ItemProperty : Specified cast is not valid.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Unin ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-ItemProperty], InvalidCastException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidCastException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetItemPropertyCommand

edited Nov 7, 2023 at 13:49

answered Aug 7, 2022 at 13:14

js2010

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