Use PowerShell to Find and Uninstall Software

re: Use PowerShell to Find and Uninstall Software

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re: Use PowerShell to Find and Uninstall Software

Jeffrey S. Patton — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:55:22 GMT

This is by far the best solution I have found, it's very quick, and doesn't trigger a repair.

blogs.technet.com/.../how-to-not-use-win32-product-in-group-policy-filtering.aspx

Create a custom MOF

re: Use PowerShell to Find and Uninstall Software

pamarths — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:09:03 GMT

Per one of the previous articles on this blog, usage of Win32_Product WMI class is not a right choice. I advised many people to stop using that class because of performance reasons and it's unnecessary attempt to repair of applications when a simple query is triggered to get list of softwares. Marc Carter explained more about it in blogs.technet.com/.../use-powershell-to-quickly-find-installed-software.aspx.

If you would like to use other available approaches to uninstall a product, see techibee.com/.../1400

re: Use PowerShell to Find and Uninstall Software

Klaus Schulte — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:14 GMT

Hi Ed,

I read through your very interesting blog article.

Even on my slow machine it is signifficantly faster to use the [wmi] type accelerator but the time it took to get at the $classKey using:

gwmi win32_product -filter "Name LIKE '%Silverlight%'"

compensates for that, I' afraid ...

Constructing the concrete $classkey with all those escape sequences is no fun either!

So I'd like to stay with the slower but much more intuitive approach:

measure-command {gwmi win32_product | ? {$_.name -match 'silverlight'}}

Of course having to repeat this command, maybe including a lot of different servers, it may well be worth to go for the faster version.

There maybe one mistake in the article, After the statement:

"If you suspect that the problem with the filter is that I used the like operator as opposed to the equality operator, that is not the case. Here are the results from using the equality operator."

you are repeating the exactly same command and output as before. This looks like a copy&paste bug :-) ...

Klaus.