[Evergreen-general] Uninstalling XUL Client through Command Prompt

[John Amundson]

Thanks, Jason!

I passed this along, and it satisfied the library's needs.

John

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:31 PM Jason Boyer <JBoyer at equinoxoli.org> wrote:

> Hi John, he may have better luck passing the /S switch to the uninstaller
> (has to be upper case). That prevents it from asking any questions or even
> having an interface. Sometimes just trying to show a window is enough to
> knock out an application being run remotely like this.
>
> Jason
>
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> On Apr 26, 2021, at 12:12 PM, John Amundson <jamundson at cwmars.org> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I have a fairly unique request from one of our library systems, and staff
> internally are not able to help.
>
> I am hoping someone out there might be.
>
> We recently removed XUL client access to our Evergreen instance. We
> recommend to our libraries that they should remove the XUL client program
> completely from their computers so that staff are not tempted and denied.
>
> One of our larger library systems has many computers to update. Their head
> of IT wanted to know if it was possible to uninstall the XUL client through
> the Command Prompt (Windows) to speed up the process.
>
> He tried evoking the uninstall program, but it didn't work. He was
> wondering if there was a special parameter or path to take to get this work.
>
> This is beyond me at this point, and I do not have any tips or suggestions
> to give. So I'm opening it up to the floor...
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
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