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Posted on February 12, 2010March 11, 2019

DOS Command Script: uninstall an application

The scenario is you have an application which was installed through MSI. And you only know the application name (in this case, the beginning partĀ of the application name). Using msiexec command requires you to know the product GUID but the application might have different GUID for its different version. So here is the solution I …

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Posted on February 12, 2010March 11, 2019

Control Panel Search Tip for Windows Vista/Windows 2008

In order to search for any Control Panel item, you should not use “Classic View”. As an example, if you want to turn off UAC (not recommended though), you search for “uac” with the normal Control Panel view and the option should come out. The good news is the issue is fixed in Windows 7, …

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