Custom uninstall / Reinstall

[bbbngowc]

Hello,

I have an application installed on some machines in my network called EAS. Their website doesn't offer any automated install/uninstall advice for the application. Is there a way for me to uninstall, reinstall or repair this application using a group policy or something? Some 3rd party application that can create a package and answer file or something?

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

I have an application installed on some machines in my network called EAS. Their website doesn't offer any automated install/uninstall advice for the application. Is there a way for me to uninstall, reinstall or repair this application using a group policy or something? Some 3rd party application that can create a package and answer file or something?

This sounds like a job for InnoSetup. All admins should have an installation of this excellent free setup/installer/packager.

Regarding your already installed application, provided that you know where the files are and what they are called and what related registry entries exist you could wip up a script and then compile it to a nice EXE to push down to every computer or place it on a flashdrive and walk it around yourself.

The compiled EXE will do anything that you want it to do (and I mean anything). So the answer is yes, you can easily remove/repair this or any other program. The learning curve for InnoSetup is not steep at all, the default features handle all imagineable tasks. For those unimagineable chores, it is supplemented by a Pascal scripting language (but using it is entirely optional).

Edited October 3, 2008 by CharlotteTheHarlot