Uninstall through WMI

[Dan Pavel]

Hi,

I need to build an small application to uninstall an application,
remotely, from the computers in my network. How I can do this through
WMI. It is not an application installed by MSI.
I use this to gather the UninstallString:

keyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninsta ll\" +
subKey;
keyName = "DisplayName";
keyString = "UninstallString";
ManagementBaseObject outParam =
wmiRegistry.InvokeMethod("GetStringValue", inParam, null);
if ((uint)outParam["ReturnValue"] == 0)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(Convert.ToString(outParam["sValue"]));
}

but after I have this uninstall string, I don't know how to use it to
start the uninstallation.
Please help
Thank you

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[Scott Allen]

That reg key would contain the command line to run. You'll want to
look for techniques to run a process on the remote machine:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...remote+process

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:01:52 -0800, Dan Pavel
<my**************@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

I need to build an small application to uninstall an application,
remotely, from the computers in my network. How I can do this through
WMI. It is not an application installed by MSI.
I use this to gather the UninstallString:

keyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninsta ll\" +
subKey;
keyName = "DisplayName";
keyString = "UninstallString";
ManagementBaseObject outParam =
wmiRegistry.InvokeMethod("GetStringValue", inParam, null);
if ((uint)outParam["ReturnValue"] == 0)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(Convert.ToString(outParam["sValue"]));
}

but after I have this uninstall string, I don't know how to use it to
start the uninstallation.
Please help
Thank you

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