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goranalkovic / WinGetGui

A very basic GUI for installing apps through WinGet
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track installed apps #3

Closed ghost1372 closed 3 years ago

ghost1372 commented 4 years ago

Hello, first of all, thank you for your very good idea I got an idea from your app and created a similar application The way you do to check the installed programs is not very good some of them may be pre-installed I solved this problem with the registry. Most programs are detected From here you can see the code, It may be useful for you https://github.com/HandyOrg/HandyWinGet-GUI/blob/f58d10fe293923981e7fff0c96becc533aa4b875/HandyWinGet-GUI/Tools/Tools.cs#L57-L97

goranalkovic commented 4 years ago

Currently I'm only tracking apps installed through my app (and I guess throught WinGet).

In the future I don't have plans yet to check if that version of the program is already installed, not sure if I want this to be some kind of an "uninstaller tool", but I'll consider it.

Thanks for the code snippet, it might come in handy 🙂

BTW, I don't see it used in your app as I can install the same package multiple times, and I can install it even if it was installed before, maybe I'm doing something wrong?

ghost1372 commented 4 years ago

The release version doesn't include this feature yet, but if you build from source you can enable this option from settings and after refreshing list, If there is a pre-installed program, you will see an icon next to it Untitled

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goranalkovic commented 4 years ago

Ah ok, got it