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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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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

WinGet Bug Report: Archive Extraction Fails with 0x80004005 (E_FAIL) for Valid ZIPs Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug Needs-Repro Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5670 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2025
Updating some 32 bit apps automatically replaces them with 64 bit version Open

Area-Architecture Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5669 · 10 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2025
`-Version` and `-IncludePrerelease` are mutually exclusive when they shouldn't be Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5657 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2025
`Get-WinGetPackage` returns a different set of packages than `winget list` Open

Command-List Issue-Bug PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5654 · 6 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2025
Can not uninstall package due to Shell API (`SHEvaluateSystemCommandTemplate`) failure Open

Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5648 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Strange behavior -update Open

Area-External Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5641 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2025
CatalogError, System.Exception with certain combinations of options Open

Command-Download Issue-Bug PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5637 · Opened Aug 3, 2025
Get-WinGetPackage has different results for package query elevated vs non-elevated Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5635 · Opened Aug 1, 2025
Seems like winget is completely broken due to an SQL issue Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5630 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2025
Find-WinGetPackage crashes PowerShell on Windows Server 2022 Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5626 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2025
Can we have package manifests for manual-only updates? (i.e. manual update hints) Open

Area-Manifest Area-Output Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5612 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Winget doesn't properly cleanup unused `Microsoft.Winget.Source` Appx Packages Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5611 · 18 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Winget doesn't work in packer due to user-only installs versus sysprep Open

Context-System Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5599 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 18, 2025
Program 'winget.exe' failed to run: Access is denied Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5598 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 18, 2025
Elevation Prompt in the Background for PowerShell Cmdlets Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5591 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 15, 2025
Winget fails to upgrade anything Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5588 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Add support for self extracting installers in manifest schema Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5583 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2025
Provide a way for `winget` to comply with a manifest's request to include the `referrer`. Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5573 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2025
WinGet does not work when deployed through Lansweeper Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5572 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2025
CatalogPackage.DefaultInstallVersion throws an exception on Windows 10 since v1.11.400 Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5569 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Creative Cloud (incl Acrobat) not updating correctly Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5563 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Feature Request: Improve winget update name matching (Space insensitive) Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5555 · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Add support for current DSC 3.1 schema Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5550 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 21, 2025
Add `securityContext: elevated` during configuration export Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5546 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2025
"No applicable installer found" message is too vague. Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5545 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2025
Dedicated HRESULT for Elevation Failure Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5539 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2025
`--accept-source-agreements ` (and the package equivalent) documentation is insufficient Open

Issue-Docs

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5535 · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Doesn't work with Azure VM CustomScriptExtension Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5529 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 4, 2025
Winget should allow --id to be used multiple times Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5501 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 2, 2025
Support artifactory repository Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5500 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 1, 2025
Relaxing the character limit on the PackageIdentifier property Open

Area-Manifest Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5498 · 1 comment · Opened May 31, 2025
Support for updating all with Update-WinGetPackage Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5495 · 2 comments · Opened May 30, 2025
Argument for network.downloader switch Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5494 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2025
WinGet does not correlate non-MSIX installer installations of an MSIX application Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5491 · 10 comments · Opened May 29, 2025
Not enable to install package when %temp% set to RAMDisk Open

Portable

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5484 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2025
Please add.NET 8.0+ support for other nuget packages of winget Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5481 · 1 comment · Opened May 26, 2025
get-wingetpackage listing uninstalled packages Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5479 · 3 comments · Opened May 24, 2025
DNS or Network Problem Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5478 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 23, 2025
Fails to uninstall using manifest files Open

Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5473 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 21, 2025
Inexplicable 0x80070020/0x80073CF6 when installing Msix Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5472 · 3 comments · Opened May 21, 2025
winget --help lists options in random order? Open

Area-Output Area-User-Interface Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5471 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 21, 2025
winget tries to install 32bit package on 64bit systems Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5468 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened May 20, 2025
With package instaled "update" says no package Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5467 · 5 comments · Opened May 20, 2025
Stuck at archive extracting - Long extraction path Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5466 · 1 comment · Opened May 20, 2025
Avoid using VerifyVersionInfoW in IsCurrentOSVersionGreaterThanOrEqual Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5465 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 19, 2025
Winget not recognising an update is installed, and installs it every time I run update Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5456 · 4 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
Upgrade with UpgradeBehavior: uninstallPrevious ignores newly added installer types on existing installs Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5453 · 1 comment · Opened May 12, 2025
Document behavior and syntax of '--query' option Open

Issue-Docs

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5446 · 2 comments · Opened May 9, 2025
WinGet adds the relative path directly to the PATH. Open

Issue-Bug Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5438 · 1 reaction · Opened May 7, 2025
More configurable settings and arguments for install scope Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5432 · 4 comments · Opened May 3, 2025

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