Uninstalling by using MSIEXEC

[Guest]

Hi,
I have to uninstall some unused applications from the users pc's.
All our applications are deployed by using GPO's (W2K AD and WinXP Clients),
but not with the option "Uninstall when falls out of scope of management"
enabled, so we can't use this to have it removed from the pc's.

I tried to run the command "msiexec /x {application's guid}" and this works
fine for the applications this user has installed, what is quite normal.
Now my question is if there is a possibility to let msiexec, or some other
tool, remove the applications I need to remove from that pc, regardless if
that user has installed it or not.
I mean with this, two users are sharing their desktop. One user has
installed Visio and that I want to uninstall, but at the moment I launch the
msiexec /x the other user is installed. Because the second user did not
install Visio, msiexec will fail and give me the error message 1605.
So now my question is if there is a way to bypass this and let msiexec still
uninstall the files and the HKLM and HKU registry settings.

I think it is not possible, but perhaps somebody else came up with somekind
of solution already and wants to share it...

Thanks for any suggestion,

Ben

 

[Kelly]

I would think so. Seems you could get "inside help" to accomplish this,
though.

Added info:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=error+message+1605&btnG=Google+Search

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