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Simon Kennerley
Copper Contributor
Jul 22, 2019

Silent and Unattended Uninstall for Edge Insider Browser?

Hi   Looking for a command line to silently and unattended uninstall for the new Microsoft Edge Insider Browser as I need to create an SCCM uninstall command.   The 'UninstallString' in the regis...
Steve Rugh's avatar
Steve Rugh
Former Employee
Jul 24, 2019

Simon Kennerley you should be able to achieve silent uninstall by using the --force-uninstall flag. Hope that helps!

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    JimmyTheExploder
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 04, 2020

    Steve Rugh Hi, I'm also trying to figure out a silent uninstall for Edge (actually Edge Dev in this case).

    The --force-uninstall parameter doesn't seem to work. Setup.exe appears to launch as I watch task manager, but then it immediately stops running. I don't get any prompts or error messages.'

    Here's the command line I'm using, which with the exception of the suggested --force-uninstall parameter, I've taken straight from the Uninstall key in the registry:

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\81.0.403.1\Installer\setup.exe" --force-uninstall --msedge-dev --system-level --verbose-logging
     
    Any ideas? I've also tried --silent-uninstall and --quiet-uninstall, but those didn't work, either.
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      balimidi
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 13, 2020

      JimmyTheExploder :

      setup.exe" --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging --force-uninstall it worked for me

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        Ian Matthews
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 19, 2020

        balimidi 

         

        That does not work for me.  If I run that script "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Beta\Application\80.0.361.53\Installer\setup.exe" --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging, nothing happens that I can see. 

         

        If I run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Beta\Application\80.0.361.53\Installer\setup.exe" --uninstall --msedge-dev --system-level --verbose-logging users are prompted about keeping data.

         

        Thoughts?

         

        I need to silently uninstall DEV and BETA versions of EDGE from all our Win10 64bit Enterprise machines before I deploy Chromium Edge production.

         

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