How to remotely uninstall a user software guynaftaly. Wmic wildcard search using like and % code slammer. Windows management instrumentation commandline steps to uninstall software from cmd remotely using logmein as an example. The most versatile way to uninstall is by using the wmi commandline windows management instrumentation command wmic utility. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. Tracker software products knowledge base perform an. The first step is to find out the names of installed programs on the windows computer. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Rem wmic product where name like adobe flash player 11%% call uninstall. If you have any question please ask i will answer them. Wmic windows management instrumentation commandline is a potent tool that often doesnt see much use due to the lack of easily accessible documentation available. It must be automatically, without entering any parameters during the uninstallation.
Track users it needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Running the following command removes all tracker software products older than major version 6. Wmic windows management instrumentation commandline is a potent. Home forums scripting dos command shell wmic product where name like test%% call uninstall nointeractive this topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 4 years, 9. Looping the uninstaller a couple of times didnt work. Wmi compliant software will run the default uninstalation procedures. The most versatile way to uninstall is by using the wmi commandline wmic utility. This feature of the command structure will allow you to use. Id like to pull the clients site code and compare that to an array of site codes.
For those of you comfortable with the sql syntax for the same task, this will be quite familiar. You need to make sure that you are an administrator of the remote machine and that all the firewall rules allow you manage the remote machine. Wmic command for uninstall an application or software. I can get the site code with the following wmic command. Software uninstallation using wmic command line experts. Using wildcards and like statements in wmi queries and scripts. I am having a problem during the process of uninstalling programs when using wmic command. This contains the command to execute to uninstall the program. Use the appropriate call command and it can also carry out a variety of useful maintenance tasks. Queries that use wildcard filters cause wmi to use the msi provider to enumerate all. Accordingly, to get a complete list of installed software, you will need to scan information from all three branches of the registry.
Uninstall windows program silently using the command line. Msiexec microsoft installer executable can be used for programs. It pros in charge of monitoring their networks need to be able to do their job, even when theyre not in the building or at their desks. Use powershell to find and uninstall software scripting blog. The helpdesk has an elevated ad account that gives them local admin rights to any machine. I want to uninstall a software by calling a bat file. Wmic list all installed software my knowledge base. By using wmic windows management instrumentation commandline along with domain admin credentials, you can sift through multiple nodes to remove a program without interrupting the end user. In the second qfe query, note the use of the percent sign % as wildcard in a where clause, highlighted in red. Once you become familiar with the steps, it will be much faster than having to access the addremove programs applet in the control panel.
Remotely remove applications using a batch file jared. With iobit uninstaller you can search for installed software, find and remove the programs taking up the most space or the ones you hardly use, uninstall browser toolbars and plugins, remove downloads made from windows update, and even see which of. By default, this command uninstall only one item even if there are multiple uninstall items that match the wildcard. Learn how to use windows powershell to get software installation locations, and to uninstall software from remote computers hey, scripting guy. The simplest way to uninstall, and the way youve likely uninstalled programs in the past. Remove all tracker software products where the version number is lower than a specific value. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. We have a dumb application that we have to use at work. Uninstallview view installed applications on windows 10. How to get list of installed programs in windows 10.
Net version remotely is slightly more difficult, because when we call install method in wmic, it expects a suitable. And we get a successful uninstall note how the software no longer appears in the list below. This is a quick post to provide some detail on using the wildcard search for wmic. How to uninstall software on remote computers using a. A quite simple one with a button to display product names in a editable list for copypaste purposes but the main problem is that in order to achieve this, in my corporation, normal users cannot uninstall softs. Uninstalling autodesk software with the wmic utility. For example to get the program name for mysql you can use the below command. Uninstall windows program silently using the command line wmic here are the instructions for uninstalling a program on a windows computer that was installed using the windows installer. This command would trigger the uninstall process for all versions of the program xyz installed on the computer. Scripting software systems deployment silent uninstall commands oracle java runtime environment software removal uninstall java runtime environment jre hi guys just thought id post my new jre uninstall script which is alot faster than my older vb script by using the machines wmi. Uninstall automatically wmic isnt just about reporting on system information, though. You can see the full script that makes use of this below. Wmic windows management interface command can be used for.
Using a command line to uninstall software on remote pcs best. By using the windows instrumentation commandline interface wmic, you can easily uninstall an application without having to use the gui. Whether you are uninstalling just one autodesk application. Using wmic to uninstall a software product by wildcard name it is possible to use the same wmic command with wildcards to uninstall multiple versions of a software. This wmic command should be run from eleavated administrator command prompt. Uninstall a software with uninstallview uninstallview provides 3 option to uninstall a software. The background for this post was i needed to uninstall our software applications from multiple servers and each server could have multiple components installed. Just make sure you use the exact name of the program double check with the command wmic product get name if you want to use wildcards you can do this by running the following. Windows 7 thread, running 3 wmic commands from bat file. I wasnt aware you could use parameters with the uninstall method, wmic product call what happens if you run it without the nointeractive parameter compo jan 30 18 at 17. Working with software installations powershell microsoft docs. Foreach, getwmiobject, powershell, uninstall 2 comments.
This techrecipe applies to windows xp professional, windows vista, windows server. For example, if i were wanting to uninstall adobe reader 9, my command would look like this. If from some reason you want to uninstall multiple items, you can specify the maximum number of items to uninstall in the max. I run the command to uninstall certain programs such as scansnap organizer used for scanning, but after the command executes, and the results show the the program has been uninstalled, it still shows the program on the computer, and does not uninstall it. Remotely remove applications using a batch file heres a batch file you can use to remotely remove programs from a computer. Hkcu\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall. Hi, im trying to create a batch file to uninstall a program. Lets save it to the root of c and call it computers. The company has released a new version of this application, and i am trying to write a windows powershell script to uninstall the old applicationthe problem is that i need to find.
I need to empower my help desk to be able to uninstall software even if an uninstall job does not exist. Need to uninstall software from remote computers on the. Wmic uninstall not working correctly solutions experts. Uninstall applications with wmic and suppress reboot. I think wmic commands can be run from a single line which should make it easier to add to a. Made a script to uninstall all older versions of java and. Powershell uninstall multiple software applications using wildcards. But for a quick bulk uninstall that is easy for a user to run, this tool is great. How to uninstall any programme using cmd wmic youtube. I know that they can remote into the users machine, temporarily give the user local admin rights, and uninstall said software. Id have an uninstaller attempt to work through a list of known installed software and call the uninstall line which worked perfectly fine by itself from a command prompt, and get maybe a 60% chance that the software would actually uninstall. If you search with autodesk% the wildcard % will grab both variations of the vendor name.
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