Uninstall update wmic

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Hello, My recently built test machine was running a clean install of Windows 7. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. And modify the following command's ProductName section. Hitting enter will begin the uninstallation process for the desired software. The uninstallation will automatically run silently with no user interaction.

For example Adobe Reader versions 7, 8, and 9 could be installed on machines in your organization. Simply replace computername with the desired target computer. It is also possible to target multiple computers. Simply separate the computername strings with commas.

For instance, this command line uninstalls multiple versions of Adobe Reader and it does it on a remote computer: Tip: Using WMIC in a batch file startup script This is probably the tip administrators will find the most useful. The commands mentioned above target a single machine locally, a single remote machine, and a specified group of remote machines all entered manually.

In a large environment you will not want to manually enter all the computernames. WMIC can also be called from within a standard batch file. If using WMIC in a batch file you will want to use the local commands since each machine will be running the batch file individually.

To have WMIC successfully uninstall a product, you can set the script as a computer startup script. There are a million different ways to use the WMIC command line and this is only one application. If you found your way here I hope this was of some assistance to you. If you have any questions please feel free to post them and I will do my best to answer them. Scripting Languages. Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice.

Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information. Vincent Wang. TechNet Community Support. Y Method execution successful. I know I'm chiming in late, but I saw the post and wanted to assist, if it was still needed. What I use in the enterprise for one machine or a couple that I don't want to take the time to make a collection in SCCM for is this:.

There are other ways to do this as I believe parentheses do work as well. Obviously, you will need to run this with an account that has admin privileges on the remote machine, but this should work for you as it does for me. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in.