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The winget tag covers the Windows Package Manager command-line tool for Windows 10 and Windows 11, focusing on installing, exporting, and reinstalling applications. Discussions include using winget to repair missing Visual C++ runtimes, back up installed app lists to JSON for post-reset recovery, and manage Microsoft Edge or other built-in components. Third-party tools like UniGetUI and Endstate are also covered as front ends or supplements to winget, addressing update loops, CSV exports, and restoring app settings after clean installs. The tag emphasizes practical troubleshooting and automation for users and administrators managing software on supported Windows versions.
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    UniGetUI 2026.3.1 Adds Terminal UI, Agent Package Policies and WinGet Update Fixes

    UniGetUI has spent years putting a graphical front end on Windows' command-line package managers. Its newest release now offers a way to use it from the command line as well. Devolutions' UniGetUI 2026.3.1 adds a terminal interface, a policy editor for Devolutions Agent, and a way to limit...
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    How to Reinstall Apps on a New Windows PC Using UniGetUI Bundles or WinGet

    Reinstalling apps after a fresh Windows install or on a new PC is tedious. MakeUseOf's Tashreef Shareef describes a way to skip most of it: save your app list as a small "bundle" file in UniGetUI, then replay it on the new machine. This is a how-to, and it has limits. A bundle reinstalls...
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    Linux vs Windows: WinGet, Point-in-Time Restore, Desktop Switching and Live USB Compared

    Linux fans love the line "Windows has no equivalent." It makes a great headline. It's also only partly true, and the gaps are narrower than they were a year ago. How-To Geek's Arol Wright argues that four Linux capabilities reflect design choices Windows hasn't matched in the same way: a central...
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    UniGetUI 2026.3.0: Manage WinGet, Scoop and Chocolatey Updates From One Windows Dashboard

    UniGetUI offers a more convenient way to manage Windows software, but its biggest advantage is not replacing WinGet—it is putting WinGet and other package managers behind one graphical interface. The project supports discovering, installing, updating, and removing packages across several...
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    Fix UniGetUI Updates Stuck or Failing: WinGet and Scoop Troubleshooting

    When UniGetUI shows an update that will not install, leaves a job pending, or simply fails to find a newer version you know exists, resist the urge to reinstall everything immediately. UniGetUI is a Windows-first graphical front end for several package managers, including WinGet and Scoop. That...
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    Devolutions Acquires UniGetUI, Keeps WinGet GUI Free and MIT

    UniGetUI is a free, open-source Windows app that puts a graphical front end on Microsoft's WinGet command-line package manager and several others. From one window, Windows 10 and Windows 11 users can search for, install, update, and uninstall desktop software, including apps the Microsoft Store...
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    UniGetUI WinGet Bundles Reinstall Windows 11 Apps on New PCs

    If you're moving to a new Windows 11 PC, you can save most of your app reinstall work with UniGetUI, a free, open-source front end for Microsoft's WinGet package manager. On the old PC, it saves your installed apps as a small "bundle" file. On the new PC, it reinstalls everything in that file in...
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    UniGetUI 2026.3.0 Adds Scheduled Per-Package Updates

    UniGetUI 2026.3.0 adds scheduled maintenance and per-package automatic updates to its Windows package-manager front end, turning what has largely been an interactive update tool into something administrators and power users can run on a defined cadence. The release also fixes several WinGet...
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    Windows 10 and 11: Don’t Clear Prefetch or Reset TCP/IP

    MakeUseOf’s new guide to Windows command-line shortcuts gets the central point right: WinGet, System File Checker, Robocopy, Taskkill, and the networking utilities can replace a surprising amount of clicking through Settings, File Explorer, and Task Manager. But two of its proposed “quick fixes”...
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    WinGet Uninstall: Use Exact IDs, Avoid Debloat Scripts

    WinGet can remove unwanted Windows applications and third-party software from a new PC quickly, but the safest way to use it is as an inventory and maintenance tool—not as a command-line “debloat” button. The difference is important: WinGet can see applications installed outside its own catalog...
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    PowerToys Command Palette Speeds Access, Not Windows Search

    PowerToys Command Palette can put Windows settings, Registry navigation, WinGet package discovery, shell commands, file search, app launching, and browser searches behind one keyboard shortcut—but it does not replace Windows Search wholesale. PCWorld’s September 14 walkthrough correctly...
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    Three Windows 11 Commands Worth Using—With Safer Limits

    Command-line advice for Windows 11 is often presented as a shortcut: run one line, fix a problem, move on. That can be useful, but safer maintenance is more conditional. Three commonly recommended actions—updating applications with WinGet, removing an Appx package associated with Web Experience...
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    Windows 11/10: Remove Unwanted Apps Safely with Winget

    Windows 11 and Windows 10 can remove many unwanted preinstalled, trial, and long-unused applications without third-party “debloat” scripts. The safest starting point is Windows Settings for a visual review, followed by the built-in Windows Package Manager, winget, for a precise uninstall when...
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    WinGet upgrade --all Misses Some Windows App Updates

    MakeUseOf’s six Windows 11 quality-of-life picks are useful reminders that some of the OS’s most practical tools remain buried behind Settings pages, keyboard combinations, and command-line syntax. But a few of the recommendations need tighter boundaries than the original list gives...
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    KB5065789 Adds Microsoft Edit to Windows 11 24H2, 25H2

    Microsoft Edit is already built into far more Windows 11 PCs than many installation guides suggest, but the important cutoff is not Windows 11 25H2 alone. Microsoft added the command-line editor through the September 2025 optional update, KB5065789, for both Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. On a fully...
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    Fix Cross Device Experience Host Errors in Windows 11

    Cross Device Experience Host installation failures on Windows 11 are usually a Microsoft Store or device-linking problem, not evidence that Windows has lost a core system component. The small Microsoft Store package under product ID 9NTXGKQ8P7N0 supports Windows’ Mobile devices features...
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    Endstate Rebuilds Windows 11 Apps, Not Full PC Backups

    Endstate can turn a Windows 11 reinstall from a handwritten software checklist into a saved, reviewable setup profile, but it does not restore a PC in the way a disk image or full migration tool does. Its value is narrower and, for people who deliberately clean-install Windows, more practical...
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    Repair Missing Visual C++ Runtimes with Apps & Features and winget in Windows 10/11

    If an app reports that a Visual C++ runtime DLL is missing, first repair the matching installed Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable in Settings. If that runtime is absent, install the current supported v14 package with winget. This guide applies to Windows 10 and Windows 11; the winget method...
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    Back Up Your Installed App List with winget and Reinstall It After a PC Reset

    WinGet can export the installed applications it recognizes to a JSON file, which you can save somewhere that survives a PC reset and later import to reinstall those apps in a batch. This guide applies to Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) or later, where the Windows Package...
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    UniGetUI 2026.2.6 Fixes WinGet Update Loops, Adds CSV Exports

    UniGetUI 2026.2.6 is now available with a refreshed WinUI-inspired interface, CSV exports for installed software and available updates, and fixes aimed at stubborn WinGet update failures. For Windows users who use UniGetUI as a front end for Winget, Chocolatey, Scoop, Pip, npm, and .NET Tool...