# Update all out-of-date Windows programs in batch > Update all your out-of-date Windows programs in a batch using the powerful winget command-line tool. Learn the commands for a fast and efficient system. ---  **TL;DR** This article covers `winget`, Windows' built-in package manager: batch-upgrading every installed program with `winget upgrade --all --silent` (optionally with `--include-unknown` to catch more), listing installed software and available updates with `winget list --upgrade-available`, and upgrading a single application by name. > [Use the winget tool to install and manage applications](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/) If you're working under Linux or [WSL](/blog/wsl-windows-explorer), you know very well the `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade` instruction to ask the operating system to upgrade programs present on your disk with a newer version. Under Windows, since a few years (starting with Windows 10), there is such command too: it's `winget`. By running `winget upgrade --all --silent` in **[a DOS (or Powershell) console](/blog/windows-terminal)** started with admin rights, you'll start a process that will scan (in a second) your computer, detect which programs are installed on it and check if a newer version exists (and known by winget).  Then, because we've added the `--all --silent` flags, we just allow winget to process to the updates without asking confirmation. Let the computer do its work for a few minutes and... tadaaa... you've fresh and updated versions of your software *(the ones supported by winget)*.  Winget has detected that 17 programs should be upgraded and, one by one, will download and install newer versions. Easy no? > **Including unknown ones:** > > [Marc Dechèvre](https://www.woluweb.be/) tells me that `winget upgrade --all --silent` command found 29 updates to make on his machine and that adding the `--include-unknown` flag found 15 more. ## Getting the list of software Running `winget list` returns the list of all software installed on your machine and `winget list --upgrade-available` only those when a newer version is available on the internet. And, to get the list sorted, make sure you're under **PowerShell** and run this command instead: `winget list --upgrade-available | Sort-Object`. The result isn't really nice but, at least, application names are sorted. ## Upgrade just one application By running `winget upgrade Docker` f.i. you'll upgrade only that one.