Cerebro: Get applications list on Windows

Created on 13 Jan 2017  路  9Comments  路  Source: cerebroapp/cerebro

Find a way to get list of all installed applications on Windows

enhancement windows

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In Launchy, there's a default list of directory to find the applications. Like C:\Program Files\ for Windows, and can specify the file type which you want to add to index, like .exe on Windows.

Windows UWP apps are in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (hidden folder) but you need Administrator right to access this folder.

If someone want to try applications on windows there is a beta build.

I've implemented simple search for .lnk and .exe files in 3 directories.

I found another way to use Power Shell: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2013/11/15/use-powershell-to-find-installed-software/, but it doesn't work for built-in applications, like wordpad or OneDrive, so maybe later we can continue to dig in this direction

@KELiON seems to work for a first version, although no icons are displayed
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@Kageetai awesome! I still don't have an idea about getting file icon on windows, but there is another issue for that #16

@Kageetai already tried it, but it didn't work for me on windows 10(

Another test build with some improvements in #62

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