Generate List of Installed Programs?

I was trying to list all my programs because I like to do this whenever I reinstall, but never had a real good way of doing it. I used to just use the cmd, but it always takes me to long to remember how to maneuver into the Programs Folder and list everything in there. So was looking for better quicker ways of doing this. Here is the link I'm using, perhaps there is a better one here?
How to Auto-Generate a List of Installed Programs on Windows

This is what I got for this first attempt

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Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\Users\Chris> Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Obj
ect DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize

WARNING: column "InstallDate" does not fit into the display and was removed.

Second attempt I combined the two commands to try and output the text to my desktop. Nothing went to the desktop.

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PS C:\Users\Chris> Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Obj
ect DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\InstalledProgram
sList.txt

C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\InstalledProgramsList.txt

Then I tried this in the cmd and that did not work either. What am I doing wrong?

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wmic:root\cli>/output:C:\Users\Chris\Documents\InstalledPrograms\InstalledProgramsWMIC.txt product get name,version
Invalid file name.
wmic:root\cli>

I've just had a quick play and thing works for me (I'm on win10 though).

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Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize > documents\progs.txt

z3r010 said:

I've just had a quick play and thing works for me (I'm on win10 though).

Code:

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize > documents\progs.txt

Thanks very much for the test z3r010. I will try it on 10 also to see.

Paul Black said:

Hi Nasty7,

I have written a batch script that does this . . .

Under the heading Programs And Software - Installed . . ., please run Programs_And_Software_Installed.bat, Option [2] from here => BATCH PROGRAMS [Standalone].

I hope this helps!

I assume this will work under 7 or 10, and yes I have downloaded it, thanks Paul. In fact that post of yours is a treasure of info, thanks!

I guess I need to practice maneuvering in cmd to Programs and Programs(x86) to list the programs, but the batch file will be much quicker.