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How to Install Winget on Windows 10 and 11

Winget is available on Windows 10 version 1809 (October 2018 Update) or later. It’s included by default in Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) and later versions. Upgrading to a supported version is necessary if you have an older Windows 10.

Sometimes, if the winget installation is corrupted due to some reason, you can the latest winget package from the github for installation. Here is how:

Resolving winget not recognized error when running with the System Account

Although winget exists on your system, but when you try to run the winget with system account (or using the scheduled task with the system account) and you see this error.

winget : The term ‘winget’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.