{"id":1405,"date":"2014-03-19T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batchpatch.com\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2014-09-12T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:39:13","slug":"removing-adobe-shockwave-from-multiple-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/removing-adobe-shockwave-from-multiple-computers","title":{"rendered":"Removing Adobe Shockwave from Multiple Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time we get asked how to use BatchPatch to uninstall Adobe Shockwave from a group of computers. The good news is that it’s relatively simple and straightforward.<\/p>\n

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  1. The first thing we need to do is locate the uninstall string in the registry on a computer that has Adobe Shockwave installed. Launch the Registry Editor by going to Start > Run > Regedit<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall<\/code> and look for the Shockwave key. For older versions of Shockwave you’ll be searching through the many GUIDs that you see (ex: FF2A5498-4EFE-430F-A138-7EB365DBEBAD) for the REG_SZ called DisplayName<\/strong><\/em>. The DisplayName<\/em><\/strong>value would contain a string that says something like Adobe Shockwave Player 11.1<\/em><\/strong>.
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    \nHowever, newer versions of Shockwave actually appear under their own Adobe Shockwave Player<\/strong><\/em> key instead of a GUID key. In the screenshot below you can see that we have located the appropriate key.
    \n\"AdobeShockwaveRegistryUninstallKey\"<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  3. At this point we need to identify the UninstallString<\/em><\/strong> value, which in this case for version 12.1.0.150 is \"C:\\Windows\\system32\\Adobe\\Shockwave12\\uninstaller.exe\"<\/code>
    \n    \"AdobeShockwaveRegistryUninstallKey2\"<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  4. Now let’s find that “uninstaller.exe” and copy it to our BatchPatch computer. For the sake of clarity in this example I have renamed the exe to shockwave_uninstaller.exe. We are going to deploy it to the target computers and then execute it remotely to uninstall shockwave on our targets. Once you have a local copy of the uninstaller.exe, select the hosts in BatchPatch and choose Actions > Deploy software\/patch\/script\/regkey etc<\/em><\/strong>. Select the uninstaller as shown in the screenshot below, and then click OK<\/strong>.
    \n    \"AdobeShockwaveUninstallation\"<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Finally, select Actions > Deploy software\/patch\/script\/regkey etc > Execute deployment<\/em><\/strong>
    \n    \"AdobeShockwaveExecuteDeploymentUninstallation\"<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  6. We can see that we were successful when we receive Exit Code: 0 (SUCCESS)<\/font><\/strong>. And of course if we look at the target machines, we will find that Adobe Shockwave has been successfully removed.
    \n    \"AdobeShockwaveUninstallationSUCCESS\"<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From time to time we get asked how to use BatchPatch to uninstall Adobe Shockwave from a group of computers. The good news is that it’s relatively simple and straightforward. The first thing we need to do is locate the uninstall string in the registry on a computer that has Adobe Shockwave installed. Launch the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,3],"tags":[37,38],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general","category-tutorials","tag-software-removal","tag-software-uninstallation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}