List of All Programs in Start Menu for Vista

[PaulB]

I will soon be getting a new Windows 10 laptop. I am currently running a Vista laptop and would like an easy way of generating a list of all the programs in my Start Menu so that I can work through them deciding what I need on my new machine. Short of doing loads of screen shots of the Start Menu, is there an easy way of achieving this (e.g. using the dir command on a directory somewhere and putting the output to a file)?

 

[Tekno Venus]

Hi,

Try running this from an admin command prompt:

wmic /output:C:\InstallList.txt product get name,version

That will produce a file C:\InstallList.txt with a list of all your installed programs. The command may take a few minutes to complete.

-Stephen

 

[PaulB]

Thank you very much - that looks as though it gives me a list that I can work with :)

 

[xilolee]

Hi PaulB. :smile9:
You can also try this one (from an elevated command prompt):

dir /b /s "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\*.lnk" > "%userprofile%\desktop\MyPrograms.txt" & dir /b /s "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\*.lnk" >> "%userprofile%\desktop\MyPrograms.txt"

(Tried on Win10 home x64)

:wave:

 

[PaulB]

Thank you very much Tekno Venus and xilolee - between those three commands I should get what I was after!!!

 

[Tekno Venus]

Great - glad we could help! :)