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Uninstall is the opposite of "install." It is the process of removing something, such as as a program from an operating system, or a hardware component from a server.

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Removing software with a script

Can someone please provide me with a script I can run that will remove software from a computer. I am using Boztek remote scripts to do this. The softwae uninstall file is at C:\Program Files\PopMessenger\unins000.exe This will need to shut down…
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Uninstall php/apache packages which were installed from source

I recently installed php and apache from source distribution on my ubuntu(amazon ec2) instance. Now, I want to remove them. But didn't get a way to do that. Can anyone please help me show should be uninstall them. Or If I need to delete…
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Kill process, then uninstall application--Can I do this with PowerShell, over 400 computers, from a txt file?

I'm fairly new to PowerShell, but I'm very much trying to figure it out. Here's the sum up of what I want to do: 400 computers, with no more than 5 at a physical location, connected by fairly poor speeds across VPN All have a single application…
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Removing "X Windows System" and Gnome using Puppet

I'm trying to remove unnecessary services like XWindows and Gnome on production RHEL/CentOS machines using Puppet (I don't get to install the OS). From what I can tell, "groupremove" isn't supported/recommended yet, because it's not quite the…
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How do I automate the removal of Etrust Antivirus?

What's the easiest way to remove Etrust antivirus en masse? Background: I'm installing AVG on each of the clients and need to remove Etrust antivirus. I'm looking for a way to automate it. We have Windows 2008 SBS and Windows 7 clients.
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Windows 7 RunAs appwiz.cpl

I am tasked with preparing our office with Windows 7. So right now I am in the test every application I can find that we run phase. I am doing this in our normal setup, which is a limited user. I do a runas on a cmd as my domain admin account (We…
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How to uninstall ubersvn in Ubuntu?

I cannot find a good/official way to do this in Ubuntu. The best one I got from googling is this post. So how can we completely remove UberSVN after installing it?
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How do I completely remove all references to couchdb from Ubuntu 11.10?

I have removed and purged couchdb from Ubuntu, but if I type "couchdb" in the shell at any point, the system still tries to start it up before crashing. I checked /usr/bin, and I still have references to couchdb, even after I purged: $ /usr/bin: ls…
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Is there any way to retrieve data of a mysql database that has been uninstalled

I wanted to know if there is a way to recover the data of a de-installed mysql server.
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exception occurs during uninstalling msi

I installed my web application via an msi. When I try to unistall the application via add/remove programmes an exception occurs during the uninstall and the uninstall never completes. Is there any way I can get my application uninstalled or work…
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Unable to Uninstall Exchange 2010 ("Internet Newsgroups" public folder)

I am trying to uninstall Exchange 2010, before installing a new instance of Exchange 2010 SP1 on a different server. (Our production Exchange server is 2003) We have met all of the Mailbox uninstall prereqs except for the following: Error:…
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MySQL server service uninstallation

I uninstalled the MySQL server by removing the entire folder manually in my Win2k3 machine (since it was in a zip installation format), but the NT Service references are still dangling. How should I remove this stale service references.
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List all documents (webparts) and sites using a certain solution in sharepoint 2007

I would like to uninstall a Sharepoint application template (GroupBoard Workspace to be exact) but I want to make sure nothing currently relies on it. I don't see any functions within stsadm that will tell me this information and I have even tried…
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How do you uninstall roundcube?

How do you uninstall roundcube in debian? It came with directadmin.
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UBUNTU 9.10: Unable to install packages due to broken packages

I have not been able to install new packages in Ubuntu since the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-17-generic package is broken... I get the following errors while installing any package....I had once been stupid enough to delete the…
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