'Check currently installed Notepad++ version in Powershell

I need to know the currently installed Notepad++ version for an auto update script. Does anybody know how I can get it within Powershell? Maybe there is a registry entry?

notepad++silent-installer


Solution 1:[1]

The following command (Get-Item "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion returns 7.88

That should probably be enough.

Solution 2:[2]

You can add to @Mohammed Shabeer kp answer and combine this with my gist to silently install Notepad++ on your systems. I'll work on adding the the registry query to the script to check if Notepad++ is installed first. This way we dont download unnecessary files.

Install-NotepadPlusPlus.ps1

Solution 3:[3]

You can use Get-ItemProperty to get the whole properties and then output the version from the property list. Hope the below helps.

$w64=Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | where-Object DisplayName -like 'NotePad++*'
$w32=Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*  | where-Object DisplayName -like 'NotePad++*'

if ($w64) {
     write-Host $w64.DisplayVersion 
} elseif ($w32) {
     write-Host $w32.DisplayVersion
} else {
     Write-Output "No Version Found"
}

Solution 4:[4]

If you are using windows 10, you can right-click it and select properties and click on details. You can find the current version of any application

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