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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Removing Programs Installed Not Displayed in Programs and Features

Using Visual Studio 2012, I had installed an extension. After realizing the installed extenson required Win 8 and Win 7 was installed on my machine, I wasn't able to run the extension.

Simple, I just goto Programs and Features () and uninstall the extension. However, after opening Programs and Features, the extension wasn't shown. Now, uninstalling the extension had come to be a problem. Not a big problem, but it took time to figure out.

After searching MSDN, I found a site explaining a similar problem to mine:


After solving my problem, I thought this can be applied toward any situation where I needed to uninstall an installed program, which the installed program wasn't shown under the Programs and Features list.

I needed to download a little niffty program. This niffty program lists all programs installed on the machine:

Listing all installed programs and porting to a text file type:
c:\msiinv\msiinv.exe -p > c:\msiinv\msiinv_output.txt
 
The wealth of information will assist in removing any desired program that is needed to be uninstalled.
 
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One Information List Item returned when
msiinv.exe is ported to the text file.
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Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Library for JavaScript

Product code: {2B8D2B28-5F76-4455-B97C-2BD82C2C2B9C}
Product state: (5) Installed.
Package code: {0C93A2FD-6338-4417-BA41-E7E7EFBE452E}
Version: 1.0.9200.20512
AssignmentType: 1
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
Language: 1033
Installed from: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{2B8D2B28-5F76-4455-B97C-2BD82C2C2B9C}v1.0.9200.20512\packages\WinLibJS_CORE\
Package: WinLibJS_CORE.msi
Local package: C:\Windows\Installer\21634f.msi
Install date: 2012\11\22
0 patch packages.

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From DOS command prompt typing:


msiexec /x Product Code

 
Product Code can be found within the ported text file under program's name. After hitting enter, this will prompt if I really want to remove this program. Clicking Yes will remove the program.
 
Very simple and fast.
 
 
This post is for the purpose of my notes only.
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

Henry Ford