Software Deployment

The methods shown in the 2 links are different.

I have had a similar problem with an IS package (not JRE) ignoring the silent directive when using an ISS file. In the end, I captured the app in question. The second one shows a command line which uses the '/V' command-line switch to pass parameters to MSIEXEC (the remaining stuff in quotes, /qn [REBOOT=Suppress]). It's my understanding that there must be no space between the '/V' and the passed parameters. Thus:

<jre>.exe /s /v "/qn [REBOOT=Suppress]" /x

should be

<jre>.exe /s /v"/qn [REBOOT=Suppress]" /x

unfortunately this is for 1.4 and above :-(

Try this. run uninstall in command prompt setup.exe -r this will create an install.iss file in windows folder. Then extract disk 1 folder in temp in your profile and use it for uninstall. Replace the install.iss with the one you created during uninstall. use the full extracted folder to run setup.exe /s and it will silently uninstall it.

because it uses the -uninst switch to uninstall, Installshield will ignore ISS scripts.

Hi Josh,
according to people from Macrovision, this version of Installshield has no silent uninstall.

Therfore, you need a Script like this, to get it done:


Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{70F80C1E-5F26-11D7-88D1-0050DA21757E}\Setup.exe" & chr(34) & " -uninst"

WinWaitActive "Java Runtime Environment" ' Uninstall Prompt
Send "{Y}"
WinWaitActive "Installshield Wizard" ' Setup Status
WinWaitActive "Java Runtime Environment" ' Uninstall Prompt
Send "{ENTER}"

Set WshShell = Nothing
WScript.Quit ' Exit

Sub WinWaitActive(text)
Do : WScript.Sleep 250 : Loop Until WshShell.AppActivate(text)
End Sub

Sub Send(text)
WshShell.Sendkeys text
End Sub

Hope, this does the trick.
Regards, Nick

if I run this script, won't it require the user to be an administrator of the machine? We do not grant our normal user admin rights to their machines.

[font="courier new"]Hi Josh,
this script requires no special privileges, but the uninstall command from the JRE most likely does.
If it was installed by the users them selfs (what i do not assume), then it can be uninstalled with a logon script with normal user rights.
If it was installed with admin rights (most likely), you could remove it with a startup script.
Regards, Nick