Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime

Alex Sage

I only found it on one computer, so I just removed it by hand

RojoLoco

@DustinB3403 said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:

So here's the solution.
$quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime'}
$quicktime.Uninstall()
Thanks for the assist @coliver

After I run that, I'm getting an error: "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression."

Any ideas? I know less than jack shit about PS, I'm sure I'm missing something painfully obvious.

coliver

@RojoLoco said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:

@DustinB3403 said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:
So here's the solution.
$quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime'}
$quicktime.Uninstall()
Thanks for the assist @coliver
After I run that, I'm getting an error: "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression."

Any ideas? I know less than jack shit about PS, I'm sure I'm missing something painfully obvious.

It probably didn't find an object named Quicktime would be my guess. Run the first command by itself to see it returns anything.

DustinB3403

It appears to only work when run locally, which if you're attempting to remotely push it, might not work.

I'm looking at other solutions as well.

coliver

@DustinB3403 said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:

It appears to only work when run locally, which if you're attempting to remotely push it, might not work.

I'm looking at other solutions as well.

Was there an error? Should work remotely as well.

DustinB3403

No output on my co-workers system from his side, the application just remained.

RojoLoco

@coliver said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:

@RojoLoco said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:
@DustinB3403 said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:
So here's the solution.
$quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime'}
$quicktime.Uninstall()
Thanks for the assist @coliver
After I run that, I'm getting an error: "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression."

Any ideas? I know less than jack shit about PS, I'm sure I'm missing something painfully obvious.
It probably didn't find an object named Quicktime would be my guess. Run the first command by itself to see it returns anything.

After running the first part, it just goes back to the prompt, so I guess it's all gone. I would have sworn that the boss wouldn't have gotten around to uninstalling it yet (used PDQ inventory last week to find all the quicktime. I manually uninstalled 3, the boss was #4.)

coliver

@RojoLoco said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:

@coliver said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:
@RojoLoco said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:
@DustinB3403 said in Anyone have any Powershell to remove quicktime:
So here's the solution.
$quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime'}
$quicktime.Uninstall()
Thanks for the assist @coliver
After I run that, I'm getting an error: "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression."

Any ideas? I know less than jack shit about PS, I'm sure I'm missing something painfully obvious.
It probably didn't find an object named Quicktime would be my guess. Run the first command by itself to see it returns anything.
After running the first part, it just goes back to the prompt, so I guess it's all gone. I would have sworn that the boss wouldn't have gotten around to uninstalling it yet (used PDQ inventory last week to find all the quicktime. I manually uninstalled 3, the boss was #4.)

Or that it was installed with a different name. That's the function of the -match switch. It must be exactly 'Quicktime' or it won't assign anything.

wrx7m

If you are working remotely, you can try using WMI to get the actual name (and uninstall the application for that matter).

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/179-using-a-command-line-to-uninstall-software-on-remote-pcs

They actually deal with Quicktime as an example on that walk-through.

DustinB3403

OK so the powershell method does work remotely, when you kill the quicktime process.

Updated PS1.

Stop-Process -name QuickTimePlayer
$quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime 7'}
$quicktime.Uninstall()