Do you know how to find installed apps and programs on your Windows 10/11 computer? You can view your installed apps and programs using the Settings app, the Start menu, or other methods. Now, you can find these methods in this post.
How to Find and View Installed Apps and Programs on Windows 10/11?
There are many installed apps and programs on your Windows 10/11 computer. But do you know how many apps and programs are there and what are they? How to find and view installed apps and programs on your PC? In this post, MiniTool Software will introduce how to find installed apps and programs on Windows 10/11 and how to view them on your device using different methods.
Way 1: From the Start Menu
How to find installed apps and programs on Windows 10 via the Start Menu?
If you want to find and view installed apps and programs on your Windows 10 computer using Start, you can just click the Start button. Then, it will list installed apps and programs on Windows 10.
You can scroll download the app list to view all.
How to find installed apps and programs on Windows 11 via the Start Menu?
Step 1: Click the Start icon in the taskbar.
Step 2: Select All apps from the top-right side. Then, you can see all your installed apps. It is an alphabetical list.
Way 2: From the Settings App
How to find installed apps and programs on Windows 10 via Settings?
On your Windows 10 computer, you can use these steps to find and view your installed apps in the Settings app:
Step 1: Press Windows + I to open the Settings app.
Step 2: Go to Apps > Apps & features. Then, you can see a list of your installed apps and programs. You can even see how many apps are installed.
How to find installed apps and programs on Windows 11 via Settings?
If you are running Windows 11 (see how to get the Windows 11 2022 Update), you can follow this guide to find and view installed apps and programs on your device
Step 1: Press Windows + I to open the Settings app.
Step 2: Select Apps from the left menu, the click Installed app from the right panel.
Step 3: You can see how many apps are installed and a list of installed apps.
Way 3: Use Windows PowerShell
You can also run specified commands in Windows PowerShell to list installed apps and programs on your Windows 10/11 computer.
Step 1: Click the search icon in the taskbar and search for Windows PowerShell.
Step 2: Right-click Windows PowerShell from the search result and click Run as administrator.
Step 3: Enter the command Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted and press Enter. Then, enter Y and press Enter.
Step 4: Enter the following command and press Enter.
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table –AutoSize
Step 5: You will see the list of the installed apps on your Windows 10/11 PC.
Way 4: Use Control Panel
Step 1: Use Windows Search to search for Control Panel and click Control Panel from the search result to open it.
Step 2: Click Programs and Features. On the next interface, you can see your installed apps and programs.
On this interface, you can uninstall an app or software you don’t want to use anymore.
Way 5: Use Run
You can run command in Run to make File Explorer list all installed apps and programs on your device.
Step 1: Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog.
Step 2: Enter Shell:AppsFolder into the Run dialog, then press Enter.
Step 3: The Application folder will be opened, where you can see all your installed apps and programs.
Bottom Line
Want to find and view your installed apps and programs on your Windows 10/11 computer? You can find 5 ways here. You can select a suitable way according to your situation. Should you have other related issues, you can let us know in the comments.
About The Author
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Stella has been working in MiniTool Software as an English Editor for more than 8 years. Her articles mainly cover the fields of data recovery including storage media data recovery, phone data recovery, and photo recovery, videos download, partition management, and video & audio format conversions.
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