How to find the UpgradeCode and ProductCode of an installed application in Windows 7

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I have an application installed on my machine  I also have its source code but somehow the ProductCode and UpgradeCode of this application were changed   Now I want to get the UpgradeCode and ProductCode of this installed application   I feel there must be some tool for this    Can anyone kindly let me know how to get the UpgradeCode and ProductCode of an installed application

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IMPORTANT  It s been a while since this answer was originally posted  and smart people came up with wiser answers  Check How can I find the Upgrade Code for an installed MSI file  from   Stein   smul if you need a solid and comprehensive approach     Here s another way  you don t need any tools     open system registry and search for HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall key  if it s a 32-bit installer on a 64-bit machine  it might be under HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall instead   the GUIDs listed under that key are the products installed on this machine find the one you re talking about - just step one by one until you see its name on the right pane   This GUID you stopped on is the ProductCode   Now  if you re sure that reinstallation of this application will go fine  you can run the following command line      msiexec  i  PRODUCT-CODE-GUID-HERE    REINSTALL ALL REINSTALLMODE omus  l v   log txt   This will  repair  your application  Now look at the log file and search for  UpgradeCode   This value is dumped there   NOTE  you should only do this if you are sure that reinstall flow is implemented correctly and this won t break your installed application

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If anyone wants to get installed application package code  just execute below command with your application name in the command prompt  You will be getting product code along with package code   wmic product where  Name like   YOUR APPLICATION NAME    get IdentifyingNumber  PackageCode

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In Windows 10 preview build with PowerShell 5  I can see that you can do    info   Get-Package -Name YourInstalledProduct  info Metadata  ProductCode     Not familiar with even not sure if all products has UpgradeCode  but  according to this post you need to search UpgradeCode from this registry path   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Installer UpgradeCodes   Unfortunately  the registry key values are the ProductCode and the registry keys are the UpgradeCode

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It takes some time to return results  easily many tens of seconds  but wmic works well and can be scripted   wmic product where  Name like   Word    get Name  Version  IdentifyingNumber   result   IdentifyingNumber                       Name                                      Version  90140000-001B-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE   Microsoft Office Word MUI  English  2010  14 0 6029 1000   The IdentifingNumber is the ProductCode  I didn t see a property for UpgradeCode  but perhaps it might be buried under something else  See http   quux wiki zoho com WMIC-Snippets html for many other examples  including uninstall   wmic path win32 product where  name    HP Software Update   call Uninstall

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Another way-too-complicated workaround  with the benefit of not having to re-install the application as the previous workaround required  This requires that you have access to the msi  or a setup exe with the msi embedded    If you have Visual Studio 2012  or possibly other editions  and install the free  InstallShield LE   then you can create a new setup project using InstallShield   One of the configuration options in the  Organize your Setup  step is called  Upgrade Paths    Open the properties for Upgrade Paths  and in the left pane right click  Upgrade Paths  and select  New Upgrade Path      now browse to the msi  or setup exe containing the msi  and click  open    The upgrade code will be populated for you in the settings page in the right pane which you should now see

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Hadn t found any way of finding out the UpgradeCode from an installed application  before seeing Yan Sklyarenko s workaround  currently  above  But if you anyone else would find a way of finding out  at least  both UpgradeCode and ProductCode from a MSI  read on   From http   www dwarfsoft com blog 2010 06 22 msi-package-code-fun   modified to allow  when launched with wscript exe  one popup box of info per MSI  Trunicated at 1023 chars  due to wscript echo limitation   able to input MSI s  from the GUI as well as the CLI  some basic human input validation  removed debug code    Set oDatabase  and 1 bug fix  DB OpenView     Created by    Chris Bennett  Created Date  22 06 2010  Description      Opens up MSI file s  Passed as Arguments  amp  returns ProductName  ProductCode      The HKCR key created from ProductCode  a Packed GUID of ProductCode   the      PackageCode and the UpgradeCode of the MSI  Much quicker than getting these     out of the MSI s the Manual Way    References  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa369794 28VS 85 29 aspx http   www eggheadcafe com forumarchives platformsdkmsi Jan2006 post25948124 asp  if wscript arguments count   0 then   MSIs   inputbox  Enter in   delimited list of MSI s to query  Max 254 characters     MSI Product Details     MSIs   split MSIs      else   set MSIs   wscript arguments end if  set objFS   createobject  scripting filesystemobject   For Each MSIPath in MSIs   if objFS fileexists MSIPath  then     Set MSIDetails   EvaluateMSI MSIPath      MSIDetails   MSIPath  amp        amp  vbcrlf  amp  vbcrlf  amp   Product Name     amp       MSIDetails  ProductName    amp  vbcrlf  amp   Product Code     amp       MSIDetails  ProductCode    amp  vbcrlf  amp   Product Key      amp        HKCR Installer Products    amp  PackGUID MSIDetails  ProductCode     amp       vbcrlf  amp   Package Code     amp  MSIDetails  PackageCode    amp  vbcrlf  amp        Upgrade Code     amp  MSIDetails  UpgradeCode    amp  vbcrlf     WScript Echo MSIDetails   else     wscript echo  Inaccessible  Non-existant  or Error in Path for    amp  vbcrlf  amp  MSIPath  amp  vbcrlf  amp       skipping    end if Next  Function EvaluateMSI MSIPath    On Error Resume Next     create installer object   Set oInstaller   CreateObject  WindowsInstaller Installer       open msi in read-only mode   Set oDatabase   oInstaller OpenDatabase MSIPath  0    Set objDictionary   CreateObject  Scripting Dictionary       Get Package Code from Summary Information Stream      Set streamobj   oDatabase SummaryInformation 0   0   read only   objDictionary  PackageCode     streamobj Property 9      Get Product Name from MSI Database   Set View   oDatabase OpenView  Select  Value  From Property WHERE  Property   ProductName      View Execute   Set ProductName   View Fetch   objDictionary  ProductName     ProductName StringData 1       Get Product Code from MSI Database   Set View   oDatabase OpenView  Select  Value  From Property WHERE  Property   ProductCode      View Execute   Set ProductCode   View Fetch   objDictionary  ProductCode     ProductCode StringData 1       Get Upgrade Code from MSI Database   Set View   oDatabase OpenView  Select  Value  From Property WHERE  Property   UpgradeCode      View Execute   Set UpgradeCode   View Fetch   objDictionary  UpgradeCode     UpgradeCode StringData 1     Set EvaluateMSI   objDictionary   On Error Goto 0 End Function  Function PackGUID guid      PackGUID                 Dim temp     temp   Mid guid 2 Len guid -2      Dim part     part   Split temp  -       Dim pack     pack          Dim i  j     For i   LBound part  To UBound part      Select Case i       Case LBound part   LBound part  1  LBound part  2         For j   Len part i   To 1 Step -1             pack   pack  amp  Mid part i  j 1            Next         Case Else         For j   1 To Len part i   Step 2             pack   pack  amp  Mid part i  j 1 1   amp  Mid part i  j 1          Next       End Select   Next            PackGUID   pack   End Function   If one needs to copy amp paste any of the GUID s in the popup  I tend to find it easiest to use a subsequent inputbox  like inputbox       MSIDetails

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You can use the MsiEnumProductsEx and MsiGetProductInfoEx methods to enumerate all the installed applications on your system and match the data to your application

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To everyone using   Get-WMIObject win32 product   You should be aware that this will run a self-heal on every single MSI application installed on the PC  If you were to check eventvwr it will say it has finished reconfiguring each product   In this case i use the following  a mixture of Yan Sklyarenko s method     Reg       HKLM  Software Wow6432Node Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall      HKLM  Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall       InstalledApps   Get-ItemProperty  Reg -EA 0  WantedApp    InstalledApps   Where      DisplayName -like    lt part of product gt        Now if you were to type    WantedApp PSChildName   You would be given the following   PS D  SCCM gt   WantedApp PSChildName  047904BA-C065-40D5-969A-C7D91CA93D62    If your organization uses loads of MST s whilst installing applications you would want to avoid running self-heals encase they revert some crucial settings    Note - This will find your product code  then the upgrade can be found as Yan mentioned  I usually  though  just use either  InstEd It   or  Orca  then go to the Property table of the MSI and it lists them right at the top

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If you don t have the msi and you need the upgrade code  rather than the product code then the answer is here  How can I find the upgrade code for an installed application in C

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Powershell handles tasks like this fairly handily    productCode    gwmi win32 product                            Name -Like   lt PRODUCT NAME HERE gt                                 IdentifyingNumber                       Select-Object -First 1    You can then use it to get the uninstall information as well    wow       is32BitInstaller    True   or  False  if  is32BitInstaller -and  System Environment   Is64BitOperatingSystem          wow     Wow6432Node       regPath    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE wow Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall   dir  HKLM  SOFTWARE wow Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall             Name -Like   regPath  productCode

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If you have msi installer open it with Orca  tool from Microsoft   table Property  rows UpgradeCode  ProductCode  Product version etc  or table Upgrade column Upgrade Code   Try to find instller via registry  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall find required subkey and watch value InstallSource  Maybe along the way you ll be able to find the MSI file

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