Replace Whitson with the name of your user folder at the end of that command to get the file on your desktop. Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*, HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*, HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, Size, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize > C:\Users\Whitson\Desktop\ProgramsList.txt Then run the following command-it's long, but it's just one copy-and-paste command, which'll grab the contents of three different registry keys and output them to a text file on your desktop: Then, you can select text holding Shift and pressing arrow keys. Heres what works for me on Windows 10 v1909: Ctrl M or Top-left icon (or Alt Space) > Edit ( E) > Mark ( K ). on a German version of Windows have to press ALT+SPACE > B > M. Open the Start menu, search for PowerShell, and launch a new window. In other language versions the letters after the ALT+Space can differ. Unlike the others on this list, however, this command must be run from PowerShell, a newer, more powerful tool built into Windows. Before wiping your drive, you can grab a list of every program installed on your PC with one command. When you get a new laptop or do a clean reinstall of Windows, you're likely to forget some of the tools you use every day and take for granted. Get a List of Every Program Installed on Your PC There's a lot you can do with this command once you get familiar, but a little knowledge can take you pretty far. You can replace this with any text you want. -original appends the word original to the end of every file-perfect if you plan on copying the photos somewhere else for editing but want to note which ones were the original pictures.You can use more or fewer question marks to keep more or less of the original file name. Once done, type exit to close the command prompt and check if the copy and paste is working. ? tells the command to keep the first six characters of the original file name (because there are six question marks).*.* means "any file in this folder." You could adjust this to say IMG*.* to limit it to any files that start with IMG, or *.jpg for any JPEG files.rename tells the system to rename the files you're about to narrow down.Additional options control the number of choices and the prompt text. Open the newly created text file ( C:dir.txt) and youll have the complete output of the dir command in that directory.
Enter dir > outputfilename (e.g., dir > C:dir.txt) and press Enter. Without any parameters, the command prompts the user to choose between Y and N options. Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd Enter) Navigate ( cd) to the directory whose files you want to list. Leaving you with files named IMG_001-original.jpg, and so on. The choice command prompts a user to choose an answer from a list of options. You'll need those quotes if your file path has any spaces in it, so don't forget them.įrom there, you can run something like the below to rename all the files in the folder: Open a command prompt and use the cd command to navigate to the folder where those files are stored, like so:Ĭd "C:\Users\Whitson\Photos\Christmas 2020" For this, you can turn to the command line. But maybe you want to do the opposite-keep the existing file name but append a word to the end.