How can an installed app GUID be extracted in Windows 10?

Question

How can an installed app GUID be extracted in Windows 10?
I tried find-the-product-guid-of-installed-software-with-powershell

Even with using * wild card for its customized function "Get-InstalledSoftware -name * " the output result didn't cover most of the installed apps.
In this specific case, I want to add "Windows PowerShell ISE" to the Windows Terminal app by adding the below code to the array "list" at the JSON setting file:

 {
                "guid": "{???????????????????????}",
                "hidden": false
                "name": "Windows PowerShell ISE",
                "source": "powershell_ise.exe"

            }

Answer 1

I dont think you'll find any guids for software not installed by Windows Installer.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/product-codes

the thread linked below has a good rundown of different places to check. first thing that came to mind to me was to use get-ciminstance. Careful tho, msi may attempt to self repair if it thinks there's a problem with the software.

get-ciminstance Win32_Product | Sort-Object -Property Name |Format-Table IdentifyingNumber, Name, LocalPackage -AutoSize

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29937568/how-can-i-find-the-product-guid-of-an-installed-msi-setup

Answer 2

Hi,
please kindly refer to this helpful discussions here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11251034/find-guid-from-msi-file

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Answer 3

In this specific case, I want to add "Windows PowerShell ISE" to the Windows Terminal app by adding the below code to the array "list" at the JSON setting file:

powershell_ise.exe is not an app installed with tools like Windows Installer or MSI : it does not have a GUID...

Answer 4

Did you mean the AUMID? If so, there is a PowerShell script example here: Find the Application User Model ID of an installed app