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Command Line/Script to Remove/Uninstall Program that can only be removed from Add or Remove Programs

 
 
Conan Kelly
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      14th May 2010
Hello all,

I need to come up with a command line/script to uninstall a program that can
only be removed from Add or Remove Programs.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to
websites/tutorials/walk-thru's.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide,

Conan Kelly



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      14th May 2010


"Conan Kelly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello all,
>
> I need to come up with a command line/script to uninstall a program that
> can only be removed from Add or Remove Programs.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to
> websites/tutorials/walk-thru's.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide,
>
> Conan Kelly
>
>
>
> ---------------------------
> "Smokin' weed kills your brain cells. Drinkin' only screws up your
> liver...ya got 2 a those."
> - Earl Hickey (NBC's "My Name is Earl")
>
>
> If Milli Vanilli falls in the woods, does someone else make a sound?
>


I believe that you can remove programs by executing the data you will find
against values called "UninstallString" in the registry. You will find them
in HKLM. They can be quite complex, e.g. UninstallString=MsiExec.exe
/I{D2DA04C5-5035-4CE1-8CA7-94FAF280E68B}. I have never tried the technique.

 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]
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      15th May 2010

See the 'Security Update Deployment | Windows XP (all editions) | Removal
Information' section of any Security Bulletin (e.g.,
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms10-030.mspx).

If you need a bigger clue, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372104(VS.85).aspx


Conan Kelly wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need to come up with a command line/script to uninstall a program that
> can
> only be removed from Add or Remove Programs.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to
> websites/tutorials/walk-thru's.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide,
>
> Conan Kelly
>
>
>
> ---------------------------
> "Smokin' weed kills your brain cells. Drinkin' only screws up your
> liver...ya got 2 a those."
> - Earl Hickey (NBC's "My Name is Earl")
>
>
> If Milli Vanilli falls in the woods, does someone else make a sound?


 
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