Brief description of your issue When I type winget in any command prompt always results in an error saying it can't find the file winget.exe. Reading the path to the exe reveals that is trying to reach for it in the wrong user folder Screenshots are in Italian Typing the right path by hand results...

Brief description of your issue when running numerous commands. For example the following: winget source update winget search term winget install PackageName I get the following output or similar in the windows terminal: not in the screenshot is that there's a spinner on the tab of the terminal s...

Brief description of your issue When trying to upgrade the package "BelgianGovernment.eIDViewer" from version 5.1.5998 to version 5.1.6019, winget claims that the installer type changed. However when querying the information of both versions it clearly shows the same installer type. See screenshot b...

Brief description of your issue I recently updated my winget version to 1.4.11071 and downloaded the PowerShell module. Almost all of the cmdlets fail to wun with the message "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." Steps to reproduce PS>Import-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Cli...

Brief description of your issue winget install llvm.llvm Failed in attempting to update the source: winget Failed when searching source: winget An unexpected error occurred while executing the command: 0x80073cfc : The application cannot be started. Try reinstalling the application to fix the proble...

Brief description of your issue I have both Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 (x86) and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 (x64) redistributables installed on my system. WinGet detects upgrades for both of them but the issue is that it identifies them both as Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64, while one of them...

Brief description of your issue When upgrading the Mp3tag.Mp3tag application, after the application has been downloaded successfully and the installer is starting I get a message that an administrator request will prompt so the installer could proceed. The prompt never occurs, thus, the installe...

Description of the new feature / enhancement As a user of a workstation without elevated rights I would like to search only from the packages which supported to be installed with "scope: user" Proposed technical implementation details Add the --scope option to winget search .

After reading #1284 and look into the spec I am not able to understand the elevatesSelf value purpose. The "elevatesSelf" value is being set for installers which do need admin privileges (eg. Python.Python.3.11), this is counter intuitive to the "scope: User" . elevationRequired - is clear: should...

Brief description of your issue Unexpect admin privileges being required during the Python installer execution. Steps to reproduce Run winget install --scope user Python.Python.3.11 Expected behavior If tecnhically possible Python should install silently at the user level and without any errors. If...