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InstallGal
Level 3
‎Jul 02, 2010 06:42 PM

Silent uninstall does not work on Win7

Hello,

I've been using the following command for silent uninstall successfully on win XP:

msiexec.exe /x {ProductCode} /qn

However, when I tried it on Win7 it does not do anything. When I remove the /qn the uninstaller launches successfully in GUI mode.

Any suggestions?
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Christopher_Pai
Level 16
‎Jul 02, 2010 07:12 PM

What does the log say?
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InstallGal
Level 3
‎Jul 02, 2010 09:53 PM

The log file is empty.

The command I ran with logging options is:

msiexec.exe /X {ProductCode} /qn /log log.txt
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Bineesh
Level 6
‎Jul 06, 2010 01:39 AM

Try this for log
msiexec.exe /X {ProductCode} /qn /l*v c:\UninstallLog.txt
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InstallGal
Level 3
‎Jul 06, 2010 08:58 PM

Thanks Bineesh. This command produced a more verbose log that indicated the user needs to be Administrator in order to run the uninstallation. It's a bit strange since the user does have "Administrator" permissions and was the same user who installed the application. Uninstallation was successful once I ran the uninstall batch file "as Administrator".
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