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Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/7/2008 3:35:03 PM

jmaclaurin

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Anyone know a silent version for this uninstall? Its for winzip 8 and 9. They are not MSI based.

C:\Program Files\WinZip\WINZIP32.EXE /uninstall

/uninstallx, /q, /s, etc... does not work.

Any help is appreciated.

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/7/2008 5:32:46 PM

turbokitty

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Search for "WinZip" here:
http://www.appdeploy.com/software/

Might be something there.

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/7/2008 5:37:41 PM

rodtrent

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Tried that already. Nothing special. Based on his cross-post to the SMS forum, he's tried everything listed at Appdeploy.com

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/7/2008 5:57:04 PM

turbokitty

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In that case, use AutoIt.

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/8/2008 9:58:15 AM

jmaclaurin

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I've read the posts at appdeploy and they all leave me with the same result. But, uninstallx appears to unregister it so I might be able to get away with deleting the files and reg keys.

Ewww, autoit... 9-)

I found this VB script that I am going to try. It appears to use the same idea.

' Uninstall WinZip
'
' This script uninstalls WinZip 8.0 cleanly with no user prompting
'
' Steve Shockley, 08Nov2001
On Error Resume Next
Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
main()

sub main()
'Let's find out where WinZip is installed
WZPath=regget("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
App Paths\winzip32.exe\")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run WZPath & " /uninstallx",0,TRUE
FullWZPath = replace(WZPath, "PROGRA~1", "Program Files")
DeleteAFolder(left(FullWZPath,(len(FullWZPath)-13)))
end sub

function regget(value)
on error resume next
Set regedit = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
regget=regedit.RegRead(value)
end function
function DeleteAFolder(filespec)
Dim fso
on error resume next
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fso.DeleteFolder(filespec)
end function

< Message edited by jmaclaurin -- 8/8/2008 10:04:56 AM >

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/8/2008 12:39:07 PM

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I've actually never had to use AutoIt, but I know people that swear by it. The only trouble is that it must run with the user's credentials as it requires an interactive session.
Manually scripting a homemade uninstall should be viewed as the very last option. That would be ugly.

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/8/2008 2:54:03 PM

djordan134

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We used this batch file. Hope it helps

REM ***Delete all winzip shortcuts and program files
Del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\winzip*.*" /Q
Del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\winzip*.*" /Q
Del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\winzip*.*" /Q
Del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Winzip\*.*" /Q

Ren C:\Progra~1\Winzip\*.DLL *.bak
sleep.exe 10
move C:\Progra~1\Winzip\*.bak C:\Temp
sleep.exe 10
"C:\Program Files\Winzip\winzip32.exe" /uninstallx
Del "C:\Program Files\Winzip\*.*" /Q

RMDIR "C:\Program Files\Winzip"
EXIT /B 0

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/8/2008 2:59:40 PM

chiners_68

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use this key in the registry. it stores all the add remove program information for every program in the list. find winzpi & in there you will fine the command to uninstall the program

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

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RE: Winzip Silent Uninstall - 8/15/2008 11:08:16 AM

jmaclaurin

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Thanks all for your responses.

Here are the commands that I am using in my SMS Installer script. The script is attached.

%sys32%\msiexec.exe /x{7958029D-1D33-408E-BC1A-0B87C94E5633} /qn *(change sid as needed)*

"C:\Program Files\WinZip\WINZIP32.EXE" /uninstallx *(this unregisters the install, but does not remove the files)*
CMD.EXE /C rmdir /Q /S "C:\Program Files\WinZip" *(this deletes the directory silently)*

Hope this helps.