Given that winget is a PowerShell command, it uses straightforward PowerShell syntax to provide information or perform actions. Using winget starts with opening a PowerShell window with administrator permissions: press Windows key + X and then pick PowerShell (Admin) or Terminal (Admin) from the pop-up menu. (Don’t worry: if you do this on a newer Windows version it will inform you, “The App Installer is already installed.”)
There, click the Latest link under “Releases” at right, and download an item named “” (the missing characters identify Microsoft Store apps). If you’re running an earlier version of Windows 10, visit the winget home page at GitHub. Please note: winget is included with Windows 10 version 1709 and later and all versions of Windows 11 as the App Installer. In my experience, winget is helpful for checking and updating most applications that run on Windows. Winget is designed to enable “users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and 11 computers,” according to Microsoft Learn. For those not already in the know, winget is the built-in, PowerShell-based interface to Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager service.
Invoke-WebRequest -uri $DownloadUrl -OutFile $SaveToīoth scripts are basically the same thing, where one uses just one line with no variables, and the second one stores the parameters into variables such that editing the script lateron is easier, especially if this becomes part of a large script, then you can move the variables to the top of your script so you only need to search there in case you ever need to alter it.For a little more than a year, I’ve been working with winget daily to monitor and maintain my Windows 10 and 11 PCs. If you want to make it a bit more fancy, you could write the script as follows: The oneliner script would be: Invoke-WebRequest -uri "" -OutFile "$env:userprofile\Downloads\ChromeSetup.exe" Powershell can do it with just one line of code (or more if you want to go fancy here.īecause I don't know the url of the file you want to download, I'll use Chrome as example, and save the file to the download folder in your user profile. In any case, Powershell is going to help a lot here. We're missing a bit of information in this post to construct a proper answer.
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