Saturday 9 March 2013

How to: Uninstalling Application via DOS Command Line


Previously we were discussing the method of deleting programs with command prompt. Let's take a look today, how we can clean uninstall programs with command prompt. This method is not as robust as cmd deletion, but it comes very useful when for some reason program we want to uninstall does not provide it's own uninstaller. Either because programmers are a bit lazy or they simply do not want you to uninstall their product. But they will not trick you with their methods as we are not such beginners right!

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As an example I picked up DesktopEarth for my purpose. Here is how I did it.
Open cmd and type wmic as shown on the picture. Now type this: product where name="DesktopEarth" uninstall. Press enter and you will see dialog asking you to confirm action. Type in Y and press enter. Wait a little and see the results. To uninstall any other program simply replace the name.

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