Remove Chrome Machine Level

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  Monica KVH

  November 16, 2016 17:47

  From PDQ Inventory (if you have it), you can send a remote command to any PC by opening their applications list and right-clicking Chrome and selecting the uninstall option. You can also copy the uninstall path (which should start with MsiExec.exe) from PDQ Inventory into a custom package in PDQ Deploy. All it'll take is a command step.

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  Stephen Valdinger

  November 17, 2016 15:09

  Monica has the best idea.

   

  if you open Inventory, Select a Host, and go to the Applications tab of that host you should see an entry like this for Chrome:

   

  

  Create a new Package in PDQ Deploy, add a Command Step, and paste that MSI uninstall string into the command Window:

   

  

   

  Save the Package after you name everything the way you want, and then deploy it to your machines. Success! You've just uninstalled Chrome at the machine level!

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  Monica KVH

  November 17, 2016 15:20 (Edited November 17, 2016 15:26)

  Good walkthrough, Stephen.

  One thing that I have noticed when making uninstall packages is that some computers might fail because they have a different enough version of an application that the values behind the /X will be different in their uninstall commands. All that takes to remedy is running a PDQ Inventory report to collect computers with different uninstall paths, and then making new uninstall packages as needed. It's a rare thing to come across but something to watch out for--I've only seen it from old/obsolete software, and software that was installed at the machine level/for all users without PDQ Deploy.

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  Stephen Valdinger

  November 17, 2016 16:02

  Ok. I can't do anything without suggesting powershell.

   

  Here, this will grab whatever version of Chrome you have on a machine and Nuke it. Use at your own risk:

  
  
  $chrome = Get-WMIObject win32_product | Where-Object {$_.Name -match "Chrome"}
  $name = $chrome.Name
  $id = $chrome.IdentifyingNumber.Trim("{}")
  $ver = $chrome.Version
  $classkey="IdentifyingNumber=`"`{$id`}`",Name=`"Google Chrome`",Version=`"$ver`""
  
  ([wmi]"\root\cimv2:Win32_Product.$classkey").Uninstall()

   

   

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  Bouma, Colby

  November 17, 2016 16:26

  I use this command for many of my uninstall packages. It's nice because you just have to fill in the name.

  wmic product where "name like 'Google Chrome%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive

  
  https://support.adminarsenal.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/211676267-Uninstall-by-name

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