Uninstalling OpenCities Map in Silent Mode
If you have the Setup.exe of OpenCities Map, simply use the -Uninstall -Quiet commands to uninstall OpenCities Map. For example,
C:\BentleyDownloads\OpenCities Map\Setup_OpenCities Mapx64.exe -Uninstall -Quiet
- In Windows PowerShell, get
the location of bootstrapper Setup.exe using the following command:
gci "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" | foreach { gp $_.PSPath } | ? { $_ -match "OpenCities Map Advanced 2023" } | select UninstallString
You will get the path, something like this:
UninstallString
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"C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{0c77a938-fe26-4e0c-8bc7-3f2064729d40}\Setup_MapAdvancedx64.exe" /uninstall
- Use the above path in the
command to uninstall the product silently:
Start-Process "C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{0c77a938-fe26-4e0c-8bc7-3f2064729d40}\Setup_MapAdvancedx64.exe" -ArgumentList "-Uninstall -Quiet"-Wait
Uninstalling Post-Install Components
To uninstall the post-install components such as Bentley DGN Index Service, Bentley DGN Preview Handler, and others, you will need their msiexec.exe and product GUID.
- Get the product GUID using
one of the following commands:
gci "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" | foreach { gp $_.PSPath } | ? { $_ -match "ProductName" } | select UninstallString
Or
gci "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" | foreach { gp $_.PSPath } | ? { $_ -match "ProductName" } | select UninstallString
Where, ProductName is the name of post-install component, such as Bentley DGN Index Service .
UninstallString
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MsiExec.exe /X{2E873893-A883-4C06-8308-7B491D58F3D6}
- Use the string from the
above step in the following command:
Start-Process "MsiExec.exe" -ArgumentList "/X{2E873893-A883-4C06-8308-7B491D58F3D6} /quiet" -Wait