Silently run Microsoft Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter

Question

I have an app on a number of machines that I need to uninstall silently, it doesn't show up in control panel 'uninstall programs'

This tool does find it and uninstalls it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed-cca7d1b6-65a9-3d98-426b-e9f927e1eb4d

I need to run it on multiple computers, I can't find any logs as to what changes it made, just a ps1 file and xml on how to restore the registry.

no logs at @temp@ either.

Any help would be great.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello there,

If you cannot find the logs in Event viewer you can use other Windows tools to find the necessary logs.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. You can get the tool from here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log.You can get the tool from here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

How to Determine What Just Ran on Windows Console https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/how-to-determine-what-just-ran-on-windows-console/

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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