Vbscript is embedded within an html file, and is fairly straightforward. The function returns a simple array containing the list of applications installed. The answer is simple, to batch uninstall software remotely. However, i have 5 applications to uninstall and my vbscript attempts to uninstall all the applications at the same time. I have already written scripts for uninstallation using msiexec. Even though we are uninstalling visio, we are installing the uninstall script, hence the details are entered in the installation program field. This script reads installed applications from the registry. Need help with a vbscript to uninstall all versions of. The left pane displays folders that represent the registry keys arranged in hierarchical order.
I can run the uninstall s command from a command prompt and it works fine. But if i change the name of display name to pulse sec or secure pulse etc. Vbs would be injected into a web page, and could get to your pc when you visited a malicious or hacked web site. I have mentioned this in comments in the script where you need to change it. The scripting abilities which can be comparable to batch files are included in windows script host. While it says for msi i dont see any difference between the. User can choose to postpone the uninstall 5x or to uninstall immediately. Dec 16, 2017 that is why i strongly advise you to use unhackme for remove systemservice. This bit of vbscript will allow you to return a list of applications installed as seen by add remove programs. Loops through the list of arp entries and collects the. Check out this msdn article about the stdregprov class provided with wmi. Tools to manage volume activation of office microsoft docs. This time ill show you how to uninstall software, winzip on a windows os computer using vbs script.
I know that the applications support the s parameter so a silent uninstall can be done. This script will work for both 32bit an 64bit machines. Copy the below example vbscript code and paste it in notepad or a vbscript editor. Some version do not want to be uninstalled silently e. I have wrote a little vbscrip that opens the setup file, but i couldnt manage to make it silent. The office software protection platform script ospp.
Download the attached zip file and use as per the instructions given above. Below is the powershell script to unstall the software application from the remote computer. Vbs script to install software remotely it support guides. Even after uninstalling onedrive there was still an icon on my desktop. How to automatically uninstall all previous office. Below is a cool little script that uses adobe reader as an example. This script will remove any version of teamviewer application from client machine.
Disclaimer the sample scripts are not supported under any microsoft standard support program or service. How to create a script via batch file that will uninstall. Each installed application has its own subkey of uninstall. Uninstall deployed products with sccm network license. May 22, 2016 powershell script to uninstall software remotely.
Bellow is an example of cool vbs to uninstal software using its name displayed in addremove programs. Get list of installed software using vbscript through registry. I have a little piece of software that i need to install on quite a few machines on the network. To maximally automate this task, ive created this script then launched it using pstools and task scheduler to run the script within our. First youll get a popup if the software entry was found.
Any copy, reuse, or modification of the content should be sufficiently credited to ccm. Uninstall windows installer applications using vbscript broadcom. The spiders parlors admin script pack is a collection of administrative scripts designed to make it. It needs to look in hklm\ software \microsoft\windows\currentversion\ uninstall search for all uninstall string and run all the uninstall exe sequences. Need help with a vbscript to uninstall all versions of java. Uninstalling software forcefully and silently vbscript. Dec 27, 20 i have a little piece of software that i need to install on quite a few machines on the network.
First of all, download fixit from the official microsoft website for those office and windows versions you are using in your infrastructure. You may want to experiment with using vbscript or powershell, as they have better options for getting data from the registry into a variable. On the windows start menu, click run in the open box, type regedit and click ok. Learn how to use windows powershell to get software installation locations, and to uninstall software from remote computers hey, scripting guy. Running the below script removed any traces of onedrive from my windows 10 continue reading script to completely remove onedrive from. Script will take productcode of the application as an. This script is handy in case of new installations, datacentre or machine migration when the administrator is required to uninstall multiple softwares or.
I am new to powershell so i created a vbscript to execute the powershell commands. As you can probably tell by now, i know what needs to be uninstalled and what can be kept safe. It queries the sccm clients wmi class for the product, finds the uninstall string and executes the uninstall string. The software strings for hardware drivers could be either listed in the script or in a text file. The solution contains one vbscript, this script is able to detect the local os, and use one of the 2 methods above for uninstall. How to uninstall software that are nonmsi in vb script. Search for and uninstall software on remote or local computer via powershell this script searches for and attempts to uninstall a piece of software by product name. Jun 19, 2010 vbs script get computer serial number remotely. The vbs works but i have to click next and yes to all.
We have a dumb application that we have to use at work. Hi all, i want to write a script which it should uninstall the application from the add remove programs. Integer value indicating the appearance of the programs window. Silently uninstall using msiexec without closing explorer. Script needs to be ran from the command line usage examples below warning. The purpose of the script is to delete software from users. Now that we have a list of the programs installed find the one you want to remove and move on to the next step. This script seems total overkill for uninstalling an application. Windows installer scripting examples win32 apps microsoft. Script to completely remove onedrive from windows 10.
Aug 10, 2009 list all installed software returns a list of all software installed on a computer, whether or not by windows installer. Uninstalling software forcefully and silently vbscript tektips. Vbs can be distributed with legitimate software that is repackaged by the scammers. Uninstalling applications deployed through sccm is straightforward enough, but consider the scenario where your organisation has implemented sccm and would now like to use it to gain control of the software installed on end user pcs over the years. However, this setup uses a batch file to export a registry key to a file, filter out some unnecessary keys and values to another file, and then call a vbscript to read the filtered file and use the info from that file to search for uninstaller string values to uninstall all versions of java. One of the things i found lacking online regarding sccm 2012 r2 was how to uninstall software. To provide feedback or report bugs in sample scripts, please start a new discussion on the discussions tab for this script. In this script, you need to give the ip address or the computer name of the target system, in whihc yuo are going to uninstall the software. Script templates it operations and service management software.
I need help on making it by pass that and automatically uninstall everything with out prompting me. Quit into notepad and save the notepad with that in it then how do you save this file as supercpuchecker. Here is a script to completely remove one drive from windows 10. Combined with an adsi script that returns a list of computers, you can use this function to iterate through all machines on your network to gather a. But since we are uninstalling software, our detection method will be a bit trickier. Jun 10, 2012 strkeypath software\wow6432node\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall now will enumerate the uninstall registry key and place the key names in the array arrsubkeys. If i can get this to work, i can share this for others to use as well. Uninstalling software with sccm 2012 r2 help for the. This document, titled script file virus how to remove the faantivirus. Its time to uninstall a application using powershell. Today powershell is doing a lot of changes to the windows environment that includes both the server platform and the desktop platform. Addresswidth 64 then removejava software \wow6432node\microsoft\windows\currentversion\ uninstall \, aryversionsx86onx64, strlogfilepath, objprocessor end if wscript. How do i install software with silent command on vbscript. Finding and uninstalling applications using vbscript scott.
Obtain the uninstall string and msi guid this script gets the uninstall string of any software installed. The script works on windows xp per default not for windows server 2003 missing some wmi classes. Or, is there a script that will just flat out uninstall the program regardless without the concern for the x86program original install location. I had an issue removing onedrive from my windows 10 computer. Complete the following steps to create an uninstall application for a hybrid deployment. Learn how to use windows powershell to get software installation locations, and to uninstall software from remote computers. If the 32bit version of office is installed on a 64bit operating system, the script is in the program files x86\microsoft office\office16 folder. Vbs could also infect your computer by exploiting a security vulnerability of your web browser or one of its plugins. Powershell script to install and uninstall software. Usually in an application deployment this is quite straight forward. I have also tryed to create a batch file which would open the setup file, but that didint work eather. Use powershell to find and uninstall software scripting blog. I have created a hta file and a vbs script with information presented to user. Uninstalling software forcefully and silently uninstalling software forcefully and silently k3y3n1n isitmanagement.
At a highlevel, this is what my updated powershell script does. I just need to uninstall it period across all of these machines. Jun 20, 2016 after the script has finished execution, the user can execute the batch file softwarelist. But the point of my post is to create a detection method for an app thats been uninstalled by script and no longer exists on the machine. Vbscript to get list of installed software through registry. Trying to script a silent uninstall with vbscript stack overflow. Check out this msdn article about the stdregprov class provided with wmi for more detail. Script search for and uninstall software on remote or. Powershell script to install software is so simple then doing it in the gui. Apr 29, 2011 this time ill show you how to uninstall software, winzip on a windows os computer using vbs script. Help with script for uninstalling software ive read on here from different posts about using wmi in powershell for uninstalling software is a bad idea, so im trying to figure out how to do it using the uninstall string in the registry. Finding and uninstalling applications using vbscript. May 21, 2018 since my focus has been specifically on removal of sophos antivirus sav i do not expect this script to be 99100% for other sophos products, but this script was designed to allow for further development to expand the scope to other sophos products and serve as an ultimate sophos removal script and improve its reliability in removal.
Vbs script check for locked active directory user accounts. Its the weird situation where you need to uninstall an app as a prereq to installing a new version. How to uninstall programs using powershell life of a. Vbscript is a windowsnative programming language that is mainly used to create web server applications. How to remove software using vbs script tips 4 teks.
Sccm detection method for an app uninstall scripters inc. Seriously though, unless the software supports an automated uninstall youre looking at getting into. Why microsoft made it so hard to remove onedrive is beyond me. Dec 22, 2014 uninstalling software with sccm 2012 r2. Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the start menu. I have the script working, but every program throws up a prompt when run. How to uninstall software that are nonmsi in vb script software. Windows script host, short for wsh, is actually a microsoft technology.
Using powershell to uninstall applications with hardware. Vbscript it working correctly but does not wait for the uninstall command to. Aug 20, 2015 you can use this script for other fonts, by replacing helvetica with your font name and then change the length from 9 to the one of your fonts length. For a simple uninstall without the rather dubious looking cleanup script entries above, you simply uninstall from the command line with msiexec. I have to write a vb script for uninstalling the software from the systems on network. For more information, see the windows script host section in the windows sdk. Detects if the script is running in x84, x64 or wow32 mode. Uninstalling software with sccm 2012 r2 help for the help desk. Visual basic scripting comes in hand in a large variety of situations, in other words, every sysadmin should know at least basics of vbscript. The following script will uninstall windows installer based applications in silent mode. All vbs code found on this site needs to be copied and pasted on a notepad file and saved with the extension. How to uninstall application fro add remove programs. I am attempting to write a script to an uninstall of some applications. If possible, i want to uninstall all the software except for a few hardware drivers.
Sccm ts vb script to uninstall applications all about. Boolean value indicating whether the script should wait for the program to finish executing before continuing to the next statement in your script. The script does a check for the uninstall folder, and run the spuninst. I need some help to set up a script to uninstall software that are nonmsi. If you want to get list of installed programs from remote computerremote pc, you can give your computer name. 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. Open a powershell session and type the following command. Uninstall citrix metaframe presentation server client from 150 workstations.
You will need to have a basic understanding of vbscript and wmi. Note that not all programs make use of this information. Finding and uninstalling applications using vbscript scott is a geek. Note that this script will only handle msibased applications, however i will be providing some more scripts to assist with uninstalling nonmsi.
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