Ms Silverlight Install



There are couple of ways to check if Microsoft Silverlight is installed on your Windows computer. This post explains both the methods with examples.

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Microsoft Silverlight Download Windows 10

This article describes how to enable Microsoft Silverlight in Internet Explorer. Use if you are repeatedly prompted to install Silverlight or if you are unable to install the out of browser version of TC2000 on a PC. Make sure Silverlight is set to enabled in Internet Explorer. Click on the 'Tools' or 'Settings' icon. If you want to check the installation from CMD, the below command can be used. Wmic product get caption findstr /C:'Microsoft Silverlight'. What this command does is, it gets the list of software installed on the system and then searches for silverlight among the list.

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.

Ms Silverlight Install

WMIC command

Ms Silverlight Install

Ms Silverlight Install

How To Install Silverlight On Windows 10

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.

Microsoft Silverlight For Windows 10

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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