View recently installed programs win 7

jsmoke · 30 Dec 2018 at 08:46

You can do this with win updates, how about third party apps, can you see a list of what's been recently installed.

Windows 7 home.

Rroff · 30 Dec 2018 at 09:28

Command prompt as administrator:

wmic
product get name,installdate

Can also script it to output to a file or use other information in the get request to populate a list, etc. i.e. /output:c:\appslist.txt product get name,installdate

jsmoke · 30 Dec 2018 at 09:51

Rroff · 31 Dec 2018 at 04:54

Another way would be to create a new folder with the extension {865e5e76-ad83-4dca-a109-50dc2113ce9a} i.e. "Program Files.{865e5e76-ad83-4dca-a109-50dc2113ce9a}" then sort the contents by date but its not a 100% reliable system for checking when a program has been installed - you can also filter the folder via search by date to show stuff installed within a certain time period.