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TechSkills
Feb 15, 2023Brass Contributor
Uninstall win32 app without uninstall.exe in programfiles folder
I want to be able to uninstall an application called Rapidtyping from https://rapidtyping.com/. It seems it doesnt have a valid uninstall string in the registery. The register refers to C:\Program ...
rahuljindal-MVP
Bronze Contributor
The link you shared before contains details on using a ‘Portable method’. ~~Manually delete the folder containing RapidTyping's files and remove desktop shortcuts to them (if any).~~ Have you tried this? Should be enough to script these steps.
TechSkills
Feb 17, 2023Brass Contributor
It seems that the uninstall.exe file is created when i re-run the installer file again. The uninstaller is not always created after the installation is done. So i think i need to do some more testing and maybe create a Powershell script to re-run this installer (silent) to create the uninstaller.exe in the ProgramFiles folder of the application.
- rahuljindal-MVPFeb 17, 2023Bronze ContributorOr capture the uninstaller, wrap it up along with other files (if any) together with an uninstall script and dump it locally on the device and run it from there.