There are couple of ways to check if Microsoft Silverlight is installed on your Windows computer. This post explains both the methods with examples.
Silverlight version 3.0 was released in July 9, 2009, and is an extension to Silverlight 2.0, mainly providing improvements in graphics capabilities, media management, application development areas (additional controls, enhanced binding support, and out-of-browser functionality), and integration in the designer's Expression Blend 3 tools. Microsoft Silverlight 5.1.50918.0 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from media players without restrictions. Microsoft Silverlight 5.1.50918.0 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows. Within that new subkey we're going to add two new values by right-clicking the new subkey and choosing New DWORD (32-bit) Value. A REGDWORD hexadecimal value called Compatibility Flags with a value of 0. A REGDWORD hexadecimal value called ActivationFilterOverride with a value of 1. Exit Registry Editor and start your application.
Programs and Features console
This console shows all installed software on your system and also features available on your Windows installation that you can enable as add-on. You can look for Microsoft Silverlight among the listed items, sort the list by name column so that you can quickly look it up. On my windows box, it shows up as below.
WMIC command
Get Silverlight 5 32 Bit
Silverlight 32 Bit Heinemann
If you want to check the installation from CMD, the below command can be used.
What this command does is, it gets the list of software installed on the system and then searches for silverlight among the list.
Example when Silverlight was installed on the computer
Example when Silverlight was not installed
It prints blank line when it does not find the specified software in the list.
Get Silverlight version
We can use ‘get version’ with WMIC command to find the version of silverlight installed on the computer.
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