How to list installed applications and versions with PowerShell

While you can retrieve this information using WMI, it can be quite heavy, so I'll show you how to get it from the registry instead.

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion

You can then retrieve it as follows:

PS D:\Repos\Zenn> Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion

DisplayName                                                                           DisplayVersion
-----------                                                                           --------------    
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 Preview                                                 17.0.0 Preview 2.0
Visual Studio Enterprise 2019                                                         16.11.3
Amazon Kindle                                                                         1.32.0.61109

Now you can use it however you like in PowerShell. That's it!