Windows 7: Software inventory

Is there a free program that will let me inventorise all the software that I have installed so I know what to install after a format?

All you need to do Nick, is check your program and files section in Control panel... easiest way I can think of...

From an elevated prompt, type 'wmic product'

Whoops, Soory swarfega, I just checked it, it comes out a bit messy and gives you too much info.

Standby and I'll make good by writing you a batch file.

It took a little while, but here you go.

Please test it (I'm sure you will anyway ).

Now that is a batch file I am KEEPING Thanks TimStitt!

Your welcome! Feel free to tear it apart and make it suite your needs.

Hi there
great effort but "Not wanting to be the 5Th player in a String Quartet" there DOES seem to be an error in it.

It doesn't list ANY of my MS Office 2010 products (as well as the usual suspects like EXCEL/WORD / POWERPOINT) it fails to list Publisher, Visio, Project, Access, Outlook.

Very nice effort but probably a bit more work needed.

Here's my list it produced :


"Adobe AIR"
"Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX"
"Adobe Photoshop CS4"
"Adobe Media Player"
"Canon Utilities Digital Photo Professional 3.7"
"Canon Utilities EOS Utility"
"Graphic Works by M C Escher"
"Escher Screensaver"
"Hauppauge MCE XP/Vista Software Encoder (2.0.27022)"
"Hauppauge WinTV 7"
"Hauppauge WinTV Infrared Remote"
"Hauppauge WinTV IR Blaster"
"ieSpell"
"ImgBurn"
"Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 SDK"
"No-IP.com DUC (remove only)"
"Canon Utilities PhotoStitch"
"Quick Bridge (remove only)"
"SAP Business Explorer"
"SAP GUI 7.10"
"Squeezebox Server 7.4.1"
"æTorrent"
"VMware Workstation"
"Winamp"
"WinRAR archiver"
"tools-freebsd"
"Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable"
"Adobe Update Manager CS4"
"Adobe Extension Manager CS4"
"kuler"
"Adobe Color NA Extra Settings CS4"
"Adobe Color JA Extra Settings CS4"
"Adobe Setup"
"Adobe Color EU Recommended Settings CS4"
"Adobe CSI CS4"
"Adobe Anchor Service CS4"
"Adobe Drive CS4"
"AdobeColorCommonSetRGB"
"tools-netware"
"Adobe AIR"
"Java(TM) 6 Update 17"
"PDF Settings CS4"
"Adobe Media Player"
"Adobe XMP Panels CS4"
"Adobe Color - Photoshop Specific CS4"
"Adobe WinSoft Linguistics Plugin"
"Nero 7 Premium"
"Adobe Service Manager Extension"
"Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server"
"neroxml"
"Adobe Color Video Profiles CS CS4"
"Adobe Photoshop CS4 Support"
"Adobe Device Central CS4"
"AdobeColorCommonSetCMYK"
"Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 ATL Update kb973923 - x86 8.0.50727.4053"
"Adobe Type Support CS4"
"Adobe Bridge CS4"
"Suite Shared Configuration CS4"
"MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)"
"Microsoft Silverlight"
"Microsoft redistributable runtime DLLs VS2005 SP1(x86)"
"Adobe Linguistics CS4"
"Adobe CMaps CS4"
"VMware Workstation"
"AcronisÿUniversalÿRestore for AcronisÿTrueÿImageÿEchoÿEnterpriseÿServer"
"tools-solaris"
"Adobe Reader 9.2"
"tools-winPre2k"
"Connect"
"Adobe Photoshop CS4"
"Adobe Output Module"
"Adobe Default Language CS4"
"Photoshop Camera Raw"
"tools-linux"
"SkyPlayer for Windows Media Center"
"Adobe Photoshop CS4"
"Nero Mega Plugin Pack"
"Adobe Search for Help"
"MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB973688)"
"Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4"
"Adobe PDF Library Files CS4"
"Adobe Fonts All"
"tools-windows"


Cheers
jimbo.

Hi-ya jimbo45,

Don't worry about being the 5th player..... if we have enough we can form a really cool band!

It's interesting that you have no reference at all for Office 2010, office 2007 shows on mine with three entries for the three different installs I did (i.e. Office 2007 including word, excel etc, Visio, OneNote). I did consider adding the individual office programs but the scope was to list 'installed' programs. The office products such as word & excel all run from the same installer.

I suppose it Swarfega needs the office programs listed individually we can get those from the office registry and add them to the file (but I'd prefer not to hard code this....hmm). The tricky part will be to remove the other entries for office that already exist on the list.

In regards to Office 2010 not showing at all on yours. Could you please open the batch and then remark out the following line
del regexport.txt displayname.txt
sava and run
and send me the two files that it creates (regexport.txt and displayname.txt), i'll take a look at these and work out why Office 2010 is not showing.

Cheers Jimbo, thanks for the feedback, you have me thinking about alternative approaches.

wow thanks Tim. Gotta love batch files.

edit: just noticed that it doesnt include everything though. Filezilla for example.