Software Deployment

If you've been trying to silently/quietly uninstall Inventor 2010 and finding it hangs, it's very often due to a prompt it wants to make that it needs to stop the explorer.exe process. If you precede the uninstall statement with a PSKILL or TASKKILL statement to terminate the explorer.exe process it will continue on without interruption (unless you have antivirus real-time protection running, which may give it problems).


Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
result = objShell.Run("c:\pskill.exe explorer.exe", 1, True)
wscript.echo "result: ", result
result = objShell.Run("msiexec /x {long-as-hell-guid} /qn /l*v c:\inv2010_uninstall.log", 1, True)
wscript.echo "result: ", result

' clean up folders and registry keys left behind