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WindowsCapability -and WindowsPackage

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You will need to install the OSD Module version 21.2.8.2 or higher

Windows Capabilities and Windows Packages have extremely long names. Most of us have gotten quite good and guessing what they are

To get a list of all Windows Packages that are Installed (or Superseded) on your computer, simply run the following command in PowerShell

(Get-WindowsPackage -Online).PackageName
(Get-WindowsCapability -Online).Name

Here are some examples that were returned on my system

Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~10.0.19041.746
Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Handwriting-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.19041.1
Microsoft-Windows-TabletPCMath-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.19041.746
Microsoft-Windows-WordPad-FoD-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~10.0.19041.1
Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~19041.685.1.6

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Tilde Delimitator

While the long name may be a challenge to read as a complete string, you can separate each of the Windows Packages or Windows Capabilities with a Tilde. Like this:

"Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~10.0.19041.746" -split "~"

Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package
31bf3856ad364e35
amd64
en-US
10.0.19041.746

That's much easier to read now. Once you see the pattern, every Windows Package and Windows Capability follows the same structure

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Get-MyWindowsPackage

This is a new function in the OSD Module that will split the PackageName making things easier to read. Simply run the following command (-Online is assumed if a Path is not given)

Get-MyWindowsPackage | ft

Here is a comparison of Get-WindowsPackage and Get-MyWindowsPackage

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Full Details

Another cool thing you can do with Get-WindowsPackage is to give it a PackageName, and it will give you as much detail as you can handle

The same method works with Get-WindowsCapability as well

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-Detail

To make things easier, Get-MyWindowsPackage and Get-MyWindowsCapability will do a foreach and get much of these details (this can take some time) by adding the -Detail parameter

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Wrapping Up

Take the time to play around with the new functions and see what you can do with it

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