{"id":6961,"date":"2015-03-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/03\/30\/powertip-use-powershell-to-see-if-media-center-is-installed\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:05","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-see-if-media-center-is-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-see-if-media-center-is-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to See if Media Center is Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to determine if a Windows 8.1 has Media Center installed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I u<span>se Windows PowerShell to determine<\/span>&nbsp;if a version of Windows 8.1 has Media Center installed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use WMI and look at the&nbsp;<b>Caption<\/b>&nbsp;property of the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI class, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">(Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).caption<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;You can also use the alias&nbsp;<b>GCIM<\/b>, or use&nbsp;<b>Get-WmiObject<\/b>&nbsp;(alias&nbsp;<b>GWMI<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine if a Windows 8.1 has Media Center installed. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine&nbsp;if a version of Windows 8.1 has Media Center installed? &nbsp;Use WMI and look at the&nbsp;Caption&nbsp;property of the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI class, for example: (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).caption Note&nbsp;&nbsp;You can also use the alias&nbsp;GCIM, or use&nbsp;Get-WmiObject&nbsp;(alias&nbsp;GWMI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine if a Windows 8.1 has Media Center installed. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine&nbsp;if a version of Windows 8.1 has Media Center installed? &nbsp;Use WMI and look at the&nbsp;Caption&nbsp;property of the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI class, for example: (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).caption Note&nbsp;&nbsp;You can also use the alias&nbsp;GCIM, or use&nbsp;Get-WmiObject&nbsp;(alias&nbsp;GWMI).<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}