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WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

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Forks: 1.8k
Open beginner issues: 6
Indexed issues: 1.3k
Avg merge: 1d 11h
Merged PRs (30d): 15

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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1,264 open issues indexed

Add the values for "Available" and "Source" for every package in list Open

Command-List Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4235 · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 6, 2024
--silent is not actually silent Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4231 · 15 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2024
Error 0x8a15003f on "winget upgrade" (The source data is corrupted or tampered) Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4224 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 2, 2024
Machine Configuration and Software Package Open

DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4222 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Command to reset winget to vanilla state Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4220 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 29, 2024
Winget crashes: 'winget.exe has stopped working' Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4217 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 29, 2024
msixbundle cannot be installed without internet Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4215 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 29, 2024
Support NuGet (nupkg) as Archive Type Open

Area-Manifest Command-Install Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4212 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2024
Add support to export configuration for WinGet administrator settings Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4211 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 28, 2024
Visual Studio provided .NET SDK is not considered when dependencies need the SDK Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4201 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2024
enabling configure requires store access. The message you need to do that is not in red and therefore hard to notice. Open

Area-Output Area-User-Interface Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4198 · Opened Feb 24, 2024
Incomplete diagnosis: `0x80070057` "The parameter is incorrect" in logs. Unable to troubleshoot problems Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4190 · 18 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 21, 2024
Implement automatic creation of shortcuts for portable programs Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4185 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 21, 2024
Ability to hide an installer's console window for silent installations. Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4184 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 21, 2024
IndexCreationTool.exe - Tryng to find not existing data in WorkingDirectory Open

Issue-Bug

microsoft/winget-cli#4181 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 20, 2024
Tag App Installer in Microsoft Store with winget Open

Area-External Issue-Docs Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4180 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2024
Terminal error message: Access denied Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4178 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2024
GPO for WinGet to remove MoTW from REST sources Open

Area-GPO Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4176 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2024
Enlighten WinGet to display Agreements in the defaultLocale if not in a locale file Open

Command-Install Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4175 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2024
Permission Denied when installed via --scope machine Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug Portable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4172 · 9 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2024
ManifestComparator has odd behavior with local manifest Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4165 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Pinning/Unpinning should work for non-installed applications without `--id` flag Open

Command-Pin Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4163 · 3 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Feb 11, 2024
winget configure fails with Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WinGet.Client.Engine' Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4160 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2024
Microsoft Edge: install technology is different from the current version installed Open

Area-External Command-Install Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4159 · 8 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Feb 11, 2024
Multiple installed versions of .NET Desktop Runtime are incorrectly matched when running `winget upgrade`. Open

Area-Matching Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4158 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Winget show update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) not version x86 Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4156 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Option to provision msstore apps Open

Issue-Feature msstore

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4154 · Opened Feb 8, 2024
`winget validate` does not recognize `$schema` field for JSON manifests Open

Command-Validate Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4150 · Opened Feb 7, 2024
Winget fails to update source and install package when agreement flags are provided Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4146 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Support installing WinGet on Docker for Windows containers Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4144 · 11 comments · 28 reactions · Opened Feb 6, 2024
The `Update-WinGetPackage` command fails with an error Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4136 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2024
Feature: search package index by installer-type Open

Command-Search Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4131 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2024
VersionRange causes issues when packages have multiple DisplayVersion Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4125 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2024
Entra ID Authentication for WinGet REST sources Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4124 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 1, 2024
[New Feature]: Enable-WingetSetting and Disable-WingetSetting should return confirmation Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6392 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 29, 2024
Repair-WingetPackageManager deployment operations not marked as complete Open

Area-Output Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4116 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2024
winget upgrade does not pre-install a new dependency Open

Command-Upgrade Dependencies Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4112 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2024
A way to list installed packages that have manifest removed Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4108 · Opened Jan 27, 2024
Decouple Download and Install Steps Open

Area-Performance Command-Import Command-Install Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4105 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 26, 2024
Resizing window while installing duplicates loading bar Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4102 · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Winget not recognising an update is installed, and installs it every time I run update Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4101 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 24, 2024
winget upgrade can't upgrade powershell when ran from powershell Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4097 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 24, 2024
WinGet Import acts as an alias for WinGet Configure Open

Command-Import Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4093 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 22, 2024
WinGet Export can generate a WinGet Configuration File Open

Command-Export Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4092 · 2 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jan 22, 2024
Winget isn't working with APPX type packages Open

Area-External Issue-Bug msstore

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4086 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2024
Winget should sanitize product version metadata in registry Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4085 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2024
Automatically drop elevation for "ElevationRequirement: elevationProhibited" pkgs Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4084 · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 19, 2024
Winget installing wrong locale version of app Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4082 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jan 18, 2024
Arguments to require or override the default behavior (unless required by GPO) Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4080 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Default behavior for dealing with signed or unsigned configuration files by settings Open

Area-Settings Command-Configure Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4079 · Opened Jan 17, 2024

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