﻿<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Tweaks.com Forum  / Windows Support / Software Support  / how to uninstall software through script or batch file / Latest Posts</title><generator>InstantForum.NET v4.1.4</generator><description>Tweaks.com Forum </description><link>http://tweaks.com/forum/</link><webMaster>forum@tweaks.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:39:51 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>RE: how to uninstall software through script or batch file</title><link>http://tweaks.com/forum/Topic245344-3-1.aspx</link><description>You might want to consider using a third party application to do the job,but they're not free:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[b]PC Network Deploy[/b]:&lt;br&gt;[url]http://www.remotepctools.com/pc_network_deploy/features.html[/url]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[b]NetStaller[/b]:&lt;br&gt;[url]http://www.net-staller.com/index.html[/url]</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:45:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>RichieUK</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: how to uninstall software through script or batch file</title><link>http://tweaks.com/forum/Topic245344-3-1.aspx</link><description>If user has installed in other drive its difficult to search. so I want strict procedure to uninstall the software regardless on which partition its installed..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;please some body help me...</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:24:44 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anil Kumar</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: how to uninstall software through script or batch file</title><link>http://tweaks.com/forum/Topic245344-3-1.aspx</link><description>Silently uninstalling through a script is easy only if the vendor included a silent switch for their uninstall routine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Good places to find the uninstall string is to look for the uninstall registry entry for the application, if it exists.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall&lt;br&gt;NOTE:  Some groups will actually include their silent uninstall string in here!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look at the install routine, see what application was used to create teh installation program and see if there are any published uninstall switches.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AppDeploy web site has good information as well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look through Microsoft's MSI articles on command line switches.  Little annoyances with MSIEXEC like:&lt;br&gt;  REBOOT=ReallySuppress  (WHY?!  If I say suppress just suppress it already!)&lt;br&gt;  Must supply the GUID instead of the application name sometimes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, you can sometimes uninstall parts of something by the GUID when you only want to remove specific things.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look at the Wise and InstallShield application knowledgebases for command line switches.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Your fallback is to use things like Script-O-Matic to automate a manual uninstall process.  Can you anticipate every possible response required?  Maybe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Or dig deeper to see exactly what was installed, configured, added to the registry, registered as DLLs, WMI, services, etc and manually roll your own uninstaller.  Ugly.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, don't forget to log what is going on in your script as well as log the uninstall.  A good thing to log is the ErrorLevel value returned after a process.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:28:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>pjb0222</dc:creator></item><item><title>how to uninstall software through script or batch file</title><link>http://tweaks.com/forum/Topic245344-3-1.aspx</link><description>how to uninstall software through script or batch file...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I want to uninstall like google talk some tool bars etc...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please help me...</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:30:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anil Kumar</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>