How to Create a script via batch file that will uninstall a program if it was installed on windows 7 64-bit or 32-bit

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I am in a small bind  The program in question can be installed in the program files directory  64bit  or X86 path  The program is already installed in over 200 machines  I am fairly certain the default install path was X86 as that s the default  I am not certain and must cover both scenarios  The original sys admin that installed this didn t use an  msi so I m left with what I ve found as   C  Program Files InstallShield Installation Information 78AC336D-25F6-4916-A711-2EA2F69E0319  setup exe  as the command provided by one utility to remotely uninstall said application I found  Didn t work and I cannot attempt to push this out in hopes it ll work    Given this problem  is there a way to uninstall this program via a script that would check both program files and X86 paths and uninstall depending on location  OR  is there a script that will just flat out uninstall the program regardless without the concern for the X86 program original install location  I just need to uninstall it period across all of these machines  The install  bat is good to go  What I cannot do is just get window to uninstall X application via a script for 32 or 64 bit machines    I ve tried MsiExec exe  X 78AC336D-25F6-4916-A711-2EA2F69E0319   quiet with no go  I can try to install the  msi this time around but am lost and my knowledge is limited with scripting or any uninstall scripts for telling  end users  without confusing them to just click here  I could tell them to go to control panel  etc  but they ll be lost    typical    Any ideas on how to script this uninstall given it wasn t an original  msi and I am not sure how to get something working  I m open to anything  I have two days to get this fixed and I m in panic mode     Any ideas or help on code would be greatly appreciated    Regards  Brian

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In my experience  to use wmic in a script  you need to get the nested quoting right   wmic product where  name    Windows Azure Authoring Tools - v2 3   call uninstall  nointeractive    quoting both the query and the name  But wmic will only uninstall things installed via windows installer

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Assuming you re dealing with Windows 7 x64 and something that was previously installed with some sort of an installer  you can open regedit and search the keys under   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall    which references 32-bit programs  for part of the name of the program  or   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall    if it actually was a 64-bit program    If you find something that matches your program in one of those  the contents of UninstallString in that key usually give you the exact command you are looking for  that you can run in a script    If you don t find anything relevant in those registry locations  then it may have been  installed  by unzipping a file   Because you mentioned removing it by the Control Panel  I gather this likely isn t then case  if it s in the list of programs there  it should be in one of the registry keys I mentioned   Then in a  bat script you can do  if exist  c  program files whatever program exe   place UninstallString contents here  if exist  c  program files  x86  whatever program exe   place UninstallString contents here

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wmic can call an uninstaller   I haven t tried this  but I think it might work   wmic  node computername  user adminuser  password password product where name  name of application  call uninstall   If you don t know exactly what the program calls itself  do  wmic product get name   sort   and look for it   You can also uninstall using SQL-ish wildcards   wmic  node computername  user adminuser  password password product where  name like   j2se    call uninstall       for example would perform a case-insensitive search for  j2se  and uninstall  J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 12     Note that in the example above   j2se  is not an environment variable  but simply the word  j2se  with a SQL-ish wildcard on each end   If your search string could conflict with an environment or script variable  use double percents to specify literal percent signs  like   j2se      If wmic prompts for y n confirmation before completing the uninstall  try this   echo y   wmic  node computername  user adminuser  password password product where name  whatever  call uninstall       to pass a y to it before it even asks   I haven t tested this  but it s worth a shot anyway   If it works on one computer  then you can just loop through a text file containing all the computer names within your organization using a for loop  or put it in a domain policy logon script    Further reading on wmic More reading on wmic

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