RE: [ActiveDir] RealVNC removal

[Crawford, Scott]

It’s been a while since I’ve played with VNC, but as I recall, there’s really 3 parts to it: 1 service, 1 registry hive, and 1 folder.  So, something like this should work:   sc stop VNC sc delete VNC reg delete HKLM\Software\VNC /f rd /s/q C:\Progra~1\VNC   I’m sure the paths and service name are prolly wrong, but putting that in a startup script targeted to the affected machines should do the trick.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J B Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 1:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] RealVNC removal   I was hoping to automate it, as it is on hundreds of laptops - which may or may not be currently connected to the domain.    ----- Original Message ----- From: SMREKAR, JACK To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] RealVNC removal   You could use a piece of software called Dameware, another remote control program. There are options that will uninstall the software when you disconnect from the session. I would install that software on your computer then use it to remote control to the laptops in question and remove VNC. After that is done, use the Dameware to logout and then when you click on the disconnect button it will remove the Dameware service also.  That should leave you with no remote control program.   http://www.dameware.com/downloads/       Jack Smrekar Appleton Area School District 920-993-7062 Ext. 2123 A+  N+  Server +     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J B Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:46 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] RealVNC removal   I'd like to uninstall RealVNC from a number of machines remotely.  These were part of a system image that was rolled out quite some time ago.  Unfortunately, re-imaging the machines (they are laptops) after simply removing the program from the image, is not an option.  Luckily, it's an AD environment - all Windows XP in a Windows 2003 single domain environment.  It appears that the RealVNC app was installed in service mode, and each machine runs the service upon boot.  SMS 2003 is on the network as well, and all of these laptops are SMS clients, but the app was not rolled out using an SMS package or MSI file.   What's the best way to uninstall such an application from all these laptops at this point?  Startup script?  Something else using SMS perhaps (I'm not TOO familiar with SMS)?  I have some ideas, but would welcome any additional input from others, as I am sure that there are better ideas and methods out there that I haven't thought of yet.  If uninstallation is going to prove difficult, I can live with just disabling the service if tha can be done easier than a complete removal of the app.