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Remotely uninstall software from domain workstations

Currently using Spiceworks to get an inventory of workstations/applications of an 'inherited' network. I see a lot of 'unwanted' software on PCs and am wanting to uninstall this software, such as : ...
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Uninstall Ruby on Rails on CentOS 6

How can I remove Ruby on Rails and all associated gems? I tried yum remove ruby but get this response: yum remove ruby Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Setting up Remove Process No Match for ...
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Removing “X Windows System” and Gnome using Puppet

I'm trying to remove unnecessary services like XWindows and Gnome on production RHEL/CentOS machines using Puppet (I don't get to install the OS). From what I can tell, "groupremove" isn't ...
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Uninstall all instances of memcached

My host asked me to: " You will need to remove all instances of memcached that you have installed. " How would i go about doing this? I am on CentOS
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Clean Uninstall Software on Windows 2008 R2 64bit [closed]

I have software that i want to uninstall because there is a new version of software, for your information I have windows server 2008 and connected to Active Directory, after I install and then restart ...
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How to prevent non-power-users with admin rights from accidentally installing adware on community pc [closed]

I am going to describe my problem and solution to prevent non-power-users installing unwanted software along with other software (adware installed through pre-set checkboxes in a "desired software ...
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Stuck on “removing managed software”

At one time, I had the Software Installation feature in GPO set to install the Java 7 update 11 MSI installer. Then, I removed it with the removal method "immediately uninstall the software from users ...
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Uninstall Gitorious

I have installed Gitorious on my CentOS server but the ssh public key authentication method does not serve my purpose as most of the users are on Windows and will be using more than one computer. I ...
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how to uninstall server 2008 R2 features [closed]

my friend told me : {I cant uninstall any features that you install it to win server,For example he installed web server to win server but he could not remove it anymore}. is it possible to unable ...
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I can't get rid of apache2

It's obvious that I am a newbie with server administration; my goal is to reach the knowledge needed to working with web services. I played with my Debian server, and I messed up apache2; Now I want ...
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Uninstall php5 installed from source

I have tried to install php5 from source , and it worked... Then for some reason need to install the official packets, so i tried a make uninstall and for my surprise there is such make uninstall... ...
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Unattended Uninstall of IIS 7.0

I know there are scripts available on the Microsoft website to have an unattended installation of IIS, but I was wondering if there is anyone who can help me out with a script to have an unattended ...
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Is there any way to retrieve data of a mysql database that has been uninstalled

I wanted to know if there is a way to recover the data of a de-installed mysql server.
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Removing windows 7 from the E drive without impacting other OS [closed]

I had Windows XP installed in my system (D:/) after that I had installed Windows 7 on E:. How can I unstall Windows 7 from E:\ safely and without impacting Windows XP on D:\ ? Edit Am I on the ...
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How do I automate the removal of Etrust Antivirus?

What's the easiest way to remove Etrust antivirus en masse? Background: I'm installing AVG on each of the clients and need to remove Etrust antivirus. I'm looking for a way to automate it. We have ...
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How to uninstall git installed from the source? [closed]

I installed the git using this article. Now I want to uninstall the git. How to do it?
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How to uninstall ubersvn in Ubuntu?

I cannot find a good/official way to do this in Ubuntu. The best one I got from googling is this post. So how can we completely remove UberSVN after installing it?
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Uninstall php/apache packages which were installed from source

I recently installed php and apache from source distribution on my ubuntu(amazon ec2) instance. Now, I want to remove them. But didn't get a way to do that. Can anyone please help me show should be ...
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Cannot remove RabbitMQ in Ubuntu 10.04

I want to uninstall RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 10.04, and issued the following command: sudo apt-get --purge autoremove rabbitmq-server which uninstalls all its dependencies such erlang libraries, but ...
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How to uninstall software using batch file

I want to uninstall a software by calling a bat file. It must be automatically, without entering any parameters during the uninstallation. How to make the bat file which would be able to uninstall ...
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Remove Exchange 2010 from a server where Active Directory does not exist anymore

Someone did a dcpromo and removed Active Directory on a box that's running Exchange 2010 before removing Exchange (why it was also a DC, I have no idea). My only goal is to salvage the OS install; ...
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Prevent a package from being uninstalled in Ubuntu

So, after an accidential fat finger with aptitude today, it wanted to uninstall mysql-server, this was on our database server. Since it was a pile of text, I just pressed Y, blindly trusting apt to ...
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Uninstalling software that is installed on drive that has its drive letter changed recently

I have a production server which is running on Windows Server 2003 and installed with a logging agent on drive D. Recently, the database administrators migrated the database which is sitting on D ...
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Kill process, then uninstall application--Can I do this with PowerShell, over 400 computers, from a txt file?

I'm fairly new to PowerShell, but I'm very much trying to figure it out. Here's the sum up of what I want to do: 400 computers, with no more than 5 at a physical location, connected by fairly poor ...
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How to remove RSA software/server completely and permanently from Windows XP? [closed]

I have windows XP as my operating system. I have RSA software/server installed in my PC. I am trying to delete it completely from my PC but it will be back again. I want to get rid of it completely. ...
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Uninstall Plesk 9.5 CentOS

I have Plesk 9.5 preinstalled on my (VPS) server, but don't like it. How do I completely erase Plesk 9.5 on CentOS? I would rather not ask my hosting company to uninstall it. I couldn't find any ...
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How to completely remove MS SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 which was uninstalled incorrectly?

On my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 I can't do anything with the existing instance of MS SQL Server 2008 R2. It was my mistake to uninstall some components related to SQL Server before running the main ...
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How to uninstall emailmail server?

Mail was accidentally installed on my debian server and I want to remove all mta, mail related software. I do not know what exactly was installed, how can I find out and uninstall this stuff? I don't ...
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Uninstall Tornado Web Server?

I'm new to installing server frameworks but I don't see anywhere in the documentation of http://www.tornadoweb.org/ of how to uninstall this. Do I just remove the build folder?
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Remove nginx installed from source on Ubuntu

I installed nginx from source (make && make install) on my Ubuntu 10.04 server. Now I want to uninstall it and install it again from the PPA repo. How to uninstall nginx compiled from source? ...
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Uninstall ASP.NET from IIS 7

Since we develop using ColdFusion/PHP, we don't need ASP.net to be enabled. So, how can I remove ASP support from my system?
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How to find log about uninstalling program on windows server 2008 R2?

I want to know who and when uninstall the special program at windows server 2008 R2, but I can't find helpful post that describe how to do it, so I create this question, hope someone could help me!
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Uninstalling vRanger Pro

I have been using a program called vRanger Pro from Vizioncore. This is a program to make backups of Virtual Machines. There is a problem with it and I am trying to uninstall it (and do a reinstall ...
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How To Remove/Uninstall PHP in RHEL4

i wanna ask how to remove/uninstall php5 from my RHEL4 i've install it, using # ./configure # make # make install i've tried #make uninstall but there's following error, i've tried it in ...
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Windows 7 RunAs appwiz.cpl

I am tasked with preparing our office with Windows 7. So right now I am in the test every application I can find that we run phase. I am doing this in our normal setup, which is a limited user. I do a ...
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How do I completely remove all references to couchdb from Ubuntu 11.10?

I have removed and purged couchdb from Ubuntu, but if I type "couchdb" in the shell at any point, the system still tries to start it up before crashing. I checked /usr/bin, and I still have references ...
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One SQL, lots of SharePoint 2010 Servers, and lots of Databases to clean

I have a dedicated server running SQL server and many web servers running SharePoint 2010 installations. All the SharePoint web servers are using the same SQL server for storing/creating databases. ...
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upgrade php from 5.2.14 (compiled from source) to 5.3 (through yum install)

I previously setup my server by downloading php from php.net, and using the configure, make make install to get it onto my apache centos server. Now I want to upgrade and I'm not sure how to do it. ...
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Properly remove Exchange after migrating to Google Apps? Or leave it?

I've replaced Exchange 2007 with Google Apps, but now am facing the obtuse Exchange removal process. It seems that I need to go in and tear everything out manually (to uninstall I have to first remove ...
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How do I cleanly remove ruby 1.8.7 from CentOS 5?

How can I cleanly remove my ruby version 1.8.7 from CentOS 5? I installed it by downloading the source code and performed a make.
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Make a program un-uninstallable by Local Admin

I have a system monitoring tool/service, that runs on individual desktops in the network. On the network each user is Local Admin. I would like to make it so that only Domain Admin can uninstall this ...
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How to uninstall postgresql on snow leopard?

I used macports to install: sudo port install postgresql83 Now I want to remove it, but I'm not sure how.
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How do I uninstall gitosis?

I've installed gitosis on my dramhost machine but now I want to uninstall it because it's causing more problems than solutions. The thing is that I can't find how to uninstall it. I deleted the ...
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Can't uninstall windows service

I have somehow managed to half uninstall a windows service I was developing. In no particular order It won't delete if I use sc delete servicename It gives an exception using installutil /u ...
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How to uninstall an application which was installed from a Linux Installer?

My server is CentOS release 5.2 (Final). How do I uninstall an application which was installed from a Linux Installer, that is extension of type .bin? For example: I installed an application called ...
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How to Uninstall cPanel from Ubuntu?

Hi is there any way I can remove cPanel from my ubuntu installation? Any scripts for this purpose?
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How can I uninstall Antivirus Studio 2010 completely? [closed]

Is Antivirus Studio 2010 malware? I found it installed on my computer yesterday, and I try to uninstall it with Control Panel. But I noticed that it is still running! How can I uninstall it ...
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Apache windows uninstall path?

I'm trying to find the path of the uninstall file for Apache 2.2. I can see it in Add/Remove Programs, and tried to find the uninstall path in the registry under ...
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Re-installing mysql and old database and users appear

I had installed mysql, mysql-server, and mysql-devel via yum: yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel I had created some databases and users and ended up breaking some tables, so I attempted to ...
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Unable to Uninstall Exchange 2010 (“Internet Newsgroups” public folder)

I am trying to uninstall Exchange 2010, before installing a new instance of Exchange 2010 SP1 on a different server. (Our production Exchange server is 2003) We have met all of the Mailbox uninstall ...

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