How to uninstall software using WMI in PowerShell?

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There are mainly 3 methods by which you can uninstall software using PowerShell.

WMI Method.
Using Package provider
Uninstallation String.

We will discuss here the WMI method to uninstall software.

WMI method

With WMI class Win32_Product you can retrieve the list of software uninstalled in your local or the remote systems. If you need specific software, you can filter by its name. For example,

Get-WmiObject Win32_Product -Filter "Name='Vmware tools'"

Or You can retrieve the name of the installed software using the Where-Object pipeline command.

Get-WmiObject Win32_Product | Where{$_.Name -eq "Vmware tools"}

Output

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-WmiObject Win32_Product | Where{$_.Name -eq
"Vmware tools"}
IdentifyingNumber : {D533345C-7F8D-4807-AE80-E06CE2045B0E}
Name              : VMware Tools
Vendor            : VMware, Inc.
Version           : 11.0.6.15940789
Caption           : VMware Tools

Below are the supported methods for this WMI object command.

Get-WmiObject Win32_Product -Filter "Name='Vmware tools'" | gm -MemberType Method
| Select Name, MemberType

Output

Name          MemberType
----          ----------
Configure       Method
Reinstall       Method
Uninstall       Method
Upgrade         Method

There is an Uninstall() method supported by this command. We can use this method to uninstall the software. For example,

$vtools = Get-WmiObject win32_product -Filter "Name='Vmware tools'"
$vtools.Uninstall()

Chirag Nagrekar

Published on 08-Aug-2020 07:41:59

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