List of Installed Store Apps exactly as Apps & Features

Ansuman Subudhi 1 Reputation point
2022-09-12T08:56:40.047+00:00

My Goal is to programatically retreive the exact same list of packages as seen in "Apps & Features". Some of the Internal Apps such as (Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider, Microsoft.Wallet) are not visible in Apps & Features.
Is there any method to Filter/Distinguish internal packages such as (Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider, Microsoft.Wallet), as windows is doing, so that we get an exact list as "Apps & Features"?

I am currently using the below query to retrieve the same:

Get-AppxPackage | ? { $.SignatureKind -ne "System" } | ? { $.IsResourcePackage -ne "True" }| ? { $.IsFramework -ne "True" }| ? { $.Status.Disabled -ne "True" }|Sort Name | Format-Table Name, InstallLocation

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  1. Limitless Technology 39,586 Reputation points
    2022-09-12T19:57:09.333+00:00

    Hello there,

    These apps are Provisioned apps. Provisioned apps are included with the OS and automatically installed when a user signs into a Windows device the first time.

    I am not sure if you get a list without these apps but you can get a list of these provisioned apps alone. Provisioned apps installed with the Windows client OS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/provisioned-apps-windows-client-os

    Use PowerShell to Find Installed Software https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/use-powershell-to-find-installed-software/

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