i want to have an overview of any software which is installed on a Windows system (or at least all software that is registering itself in Windows). With Powershell i am able to extract the data into a gridview and after filtering there into a csv file. For that i am using the following code:
### Extract x64 registered programs. Excluding KB updates
$data = dir HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall |
where {$_.name -notmatch '(\.)?KB\d+'} -pv p |
Get-ItemProperty |
Where {$_.displayname -notmatch "KB\d{5,}"} |
Select @{Name="Path";Expression={$p.name}},Displayname,DisplayVersion,InstallDate,UninstallString
;
### Extract and append to $data the x86 registered programs. Excluding KB updates
$data += dir HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Micsosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall |
where {$_.name -notmatch '(\.)?KB\d+'} -pv p |
Get-ItemProperty |
Where {$_.displayname -notmatch "KB\d{5,}"} |
Select @{Name="Path";Expression={$p.name}},DisplayName,DisplayVersion,InstallDate,UninstallString
;
### Acces $data and output to a gridview and further to csv.
$data |
select-Object DisplayName,DisplayVersion,InstallDate,UninstallString |
sort-object -Property DisplayName |
out-gridview -PassTHru |
export-csv -delimiter "," -Path C:\temp\software.csv
An example output looks like this:
DisplayName DisplayVersion InstallDate UninstallString
7-Zip 9.20 (x64 edition) 9.20.00.0 20190827 MsiExec.exe /I{23170F69-40C1-2702-0920-000001000000}
QGIS 3.4.13 'Madeira' 03.04.2013 C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.4\uninstall.exe
Microsoft Office Access ... 14.0.7015. 20190827 MsiExec.exe /X{90140000-0015-0407-0000-0000000FF1CE}
Realtek Card Reader 10.0.10125.... 20190827 "C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{5BC2B5AB-80DE-4E83-B8CF-426902051D0A}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -removeonly
For further processing i want to append a column where the GUID - if it is existing - is extracted from the UninstallString. Example:
DisplayName DisplayVersion InstallDate GUID UninstallString
7-Zip 9.20 (x64 edition) 9.20.00.0 20190827 23170F69-40C1-2702-0920-000001000000 MsiExec.exe /I{23170F69-40C1-2702-0920-000001000000}
QGIS 3.4.13 'Madeira' 03.04.2013 C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.4\uninstall.exe
Microsoft Office Access ... 14.0.7015. 20190827 90140000-0015-0407-0000-0000000FF1CE MsiExec.exe /X{90140000-0015-0407-0000-0000000FF1CE}
Realtek Card Reader 10.0.10125.... 20190827 5BC2B5AB-80DE-4E83-B8CF-426902051D0A "C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{5BC2B5AB-80DE-4E83-B8CF-426902051D0A}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -removeonly
I know that i have to do it somehow with a RegEx code but i am not able to proceed further. May someone is able to help me out? Thank you
You can extract the GUID from the UninstallString using a regex -match
and add that as a calculated property to the Select-Object
:
$reGuid = '\{?(([0-9a-f]){8}-([0-9a-f]){4}-([0-9a-f]){4}-([0-9a-f]){4}-([0-9a-f]){12})\}?'
$data | Select-Object DisplayName,DisplayVersion,InstallDate,
@{Name = 'GUID'; Expression = { if ($_.UninstallString -match $reGuid) {$matches[1]}} },
UninstallString |
Sort-Object -Property DisplayName |
Out-GridView -PassThru |
Export-Csv -Delimiter "," -Path 'C:\temp\software.csv' -NoTypeInformation
Regex details:
\{ Match the character “{” literally ? Between zero and one times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) ( Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1 ( Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 2 [0-9a-f] Match a single character present in the list below A character in the range between “0” and “9” A character in the range between “a” and “f” ){8} Exactly 8 times - Match the character “-” literally ( Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 3 [0-9a-f] Match a single character present in the list below A character in the range between “0” and “9” A character in the range between “a” and “f” ){4} Exactly 4 times - Match the character “-” literally ( Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 4 [0-9a-f] Match a single character present in the list below A character in the range between “0” and “9” A character in the range between “a” and “f” ){4} Exactly 4 times - Match the character “-” literally ( Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 5 [0-9a-f] Match a single character present in the list below A character in the range between “0” and “9” A character in the range between “a” and “f” ){4} Exactly 4 times - Match the character “-” literally ( Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 6 [0-9a-f] Match a single character present in the list below A character in the range between “0” and “9” A character in the range between “a” and “f” ){12} Exactly 12 times ) \} Match the character “}” literally ? Between zero and one times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)