How to remove an application on multiple computers?

[ITman93]

Hey Guys,

 

I'm new here!

 

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

 

Some of the staff have an application called 'Spark' IM installed on their computers, it is no longer used therefore we want to remove it from everyone's computer in the domain, i was hoping somebody could advise me the best way to do this and how to do this without having to manually remove the application 1 at a time.

 

Maybe a script or group policy to remove the application maybe?

 

Thanks in advance.

[SYNACK]

This may work

Remote Uninstall Software - Script Center - Spiceworks

 

Shouldn't need spiceworks, just run it as a startup script.

Edited February 8, 2013 by SYNACK

[ITman93]

Hi thanks for the reply.

 

Looks like something I need however, it looks like the script only works on 1 computer at a time, and I'm looking for one script to do them all! If this is possible!

 

Thanks,

[SYNACK]

Hi thanks for the reply.

 

Looks like something I need however, it looks like the script only works on 1 computer at a time, and I'm looking for one script to do them all! If this is possible!

 

Thanks,

 

Run it as a startup script and set the computername as . This will target it to the local computer.

[plexer]

How was the program deployed in the first place?

 

Ben

[thesk8rjesus]

Do you have SCCM in the network, I believe that you can remove software using that.

[TheScarfedOne]

Do you have SCCM in the network, I believe that you can remove software using that.

 

Only really works well if you deployed it that way and have the install / uninstall programs created. Best way is to try to script the silent running of the uninstall program from the local machine's program files folder (a nice if exists then script would work well), else it could be done with the msiexec program guid - but this is a bit more tricky

[ITman93]

How was the program deployed in the first place?

 

Ben

 

I believe it was a case of people running the install .exe to install the application. There are a couple registry entries, under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ej-technologieszexe4j

 

thanks.

[TheScarfedOne]

Can you have a look on the machine in its program files folder and see if it has its own inbuilt uninstall, if not, will try and find its guid code for an msiexec uninstall for you

[JJonas]

Will this script work for AdobeARM as I need to remove this from a load of machines?

[ITman93]

Can you have a look on the machine in its program files folder and see if it has its own inbuilt uninstall, if not, will try and find its guid code for an msiexec uninstall for you

 

Yes there is! uninstall.exe in the spark program folder

[TheScarfedOne]

That's good news then. You will need to make a cmd script file which runs this with the /s parameters, which is the control for silent.

 

"C:\Program Files\Spark\uninstall.exe" /s should do the trick. On a machine without the software, this will error out. You could tidy this up with an ifexist...but that might be overkill here.

[ricki]

Hi

 

Have you seen this Ignite Realtime: Silent Uninstall

 

Richard

[ITman93]

Hi

 

Have you seen this Ignite Realtime: Silent Uninstall

 

Richard

 

That seems to have done the trick along with using ifexists as mentioned byTheScarfedOne! thanks