How to quickly install Windows apps

Microsoft recently released the first stable version of Windows Package Manager. With this tool for some advanced users, you can quickly install all kinds of programs on Windows 10.

Step 1

Download and install Windows Package Manager 1.0. A double click on the downloaded file Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_[…].appxbundle is sufficient. On this webpage you will also find an overview of the available commands.

Step 2

Then right click on Windows PowerShell in the Windows-start menu and choose your Run as administrator. In the prompt you now type the command wing upgrade. This will give you an overview of programs for which updates are available. There are currently more than 1500 different applications in this database.

Step 3

It is possible to upgrade individual packs with winget upgrade , for example winget upgrade “VLC media player”. Or you can install all available updates at once with winget upgrade –all. By default you will see every installer but you can suppress that via the parameter –silent.

Step 4

To check if the upgrade was successful, give the command again wing upgrade. If all goes well, the list will remain empty. Other interesting commands include winget list (show installed packages), wing show (show information about a package) and winget uninstall (uninstall the specified package).

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