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Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines

Created: 11 Feb 2013 | Updated: 02 Mar 2013 | 6 comments
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Hi All,

Please help me regarding mentioned subject and requirement is as follows

I have uninstalled some symantec software using some uninstall script which uninstall the software but sometime keeps registry entries in registry DB. 

How can i remove/clean such entries of uninstalled software from registry on remote machine.I wanted to do this operation from machine to all remote machine using some script / tools.

Please provide me any software/ script/tool to get this task. 

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Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines - Comment:11 Feb 2013 : Link

Micorosoft msi uninstaller should help. If there are few entries in registry, it should not matter.

Cheers!
Pete

Help Link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=54619

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Chetan Savade Symantec Employee Technical Support Accredited
Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines - Comment:11 Feb 2013 : Link

Hi,

You can refer the following articles to remove SEP. In manual uninstall articles you will find registry entries specific to each operating system. You can refer those entries to delete unnecessary registry entries.

Methods for uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184988

Manual uninstall documents for Symantec Endpoint Protection

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH96924

Symantec does provide Cleanwipe tool to remove SEP however I don't see any need to run cleanwipe in your case.

 

Chetan Savade
Technical Support Engineer, Endpoint Security
Enterprise Technical Support
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Mithun Sanghavi Symantec Employee Technical Support Accredited
Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines - Comment:11 Feb 2013 : Link

Hello,

Take a glance at these 3 links and let me know if this answers your question.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/uninstalling-sep-remotely

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/remote-uninstallation

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/uninstall-client-remotely

Hope that helps!!

Mithun Sanghavi
Symantec Technical Support Engineer, SEP
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Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines - Comment:12 Feb 2013 : Link

Script the manual uninstall document

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Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines - Comment:17 Feb 2013 : Link

Hi All,

Thanks for ur replies but can anyone provide me script/batch file to delete registry of uninstalled software as I have tries all above things but not succed.

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Remove registry entries of uninstalled software on remote machines - Comment:02 Mar 2013 : Link

Here an example for using the reg command in a logof script:

http://www.ehow.com/how_8034635_remove-registry-en...

 

I believe you should be able to create a .cmd script and use within the REG commands to remove the invalid/old registry entries:

reg delete "HKCU\Some\Registry\Path" /f

or

reg delete "HKLM\Some\Registry\Path" /f
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