Procedure to Uninstall the List of Programs

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Please use the script to uninstall all of your blacklisted programs from your endpoint

Note:

Modify the variable for your list of programs - blacklist=['program_name_1', 'program_name_2']
Run as System User

Limitation:

Programs can be removed:
1. Inventory can have msi and exe programs, all msi programs can be removed without user interaction but exe programs can be removed without user interaction when only the program has quiet uninstall string.
Programs can not be removed:
1. The exe programs which has no quiet uninstall string, those are not able to be removed without user interaction

Procedure's Instructions

blacklist=['Manager', 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.6161', 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Additional Runtime - 14.0.23026', 'PDF Architect 5', 'Pidgin', 'VLC media player', 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86) - 14.0.24215']
def ecmd(CMD, OUT=False):
    import ctypes
    class disable_file_system_redirection:
        _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection
        _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection
        def __enter__(self):
            self.old_value = ctypes.c_long()
            self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value))
        def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
            if self.success:
                self._revert(self.old_value)
    from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
    with disable_file_system_redirection():
        OBJ = Popen(CMD, shell = True, stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE)
    out, err = OBJ.communicate()
    ret=OBJ.returncode
    return ret
def collectprograms(rtkey,pK,kA):
    import _winreg
    import os
    list=[]
    oK=_winreg.OpenKey(rtkey,pK,0,kA)
    i=0
    while True:
        try:
            bkey=_winreg.EnumKey(oK,i)
            vkey=os.path.join(pK,bkey)
            oK1=_winreg.OpenKey(rtkey,vkey,0,kA)
            try:
                DN,bla=_winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1,'DisplayName')
                DV,bla=_winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1,'DisplayVersion')
                inlist=[DN.strip(), DV.strip()]                    
                try:
                    IL, bla=_winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1,'InstallLocation')
                    if not IL:
                        IL='none'
                except:
                    IL='none'
                if IL:
                    inlist.append(IL.strip())
                else:
                    inlist.append(IL)
                try:
                    US,bla=_winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1,'UninstallString')
                except:
                    US='none'
                if US:
                    inlist.append(US.strip())
                else:
                    inlist.append(US)
                try:
                    QS,bla=_winreg.QueryValueEx(oK1,'QuietUninstallString')
                    if QS:
                        inlist.append(QS.strip())
                except:
                    pass
                list.append(inlist)
                _winreg.CloseKey(oK1)
            except:
                pass
            i+=1
        except:
            break
    _winreg.CloseKey(oK)
    return list
import os
import _winreg
uninstallkey='SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall'
if 'PROGRAMFILES(X86)' in os.environ.keys():
    rklist=[(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,uninstallkey,_winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ),
            (_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,uninstallkey,_winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ),
            (_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,uninstallkey,_winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ),
            (_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,uninstallkey,_winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY | _winreg.KEY_READ)]
else:
    rklist=[(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,uninstallkey,_winreg.KEY_READ),
            (_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,uninstallkey,_winreg.KEY_READ)]
collected=''
uninstalled=''
error=''
blacklisted=''
hasnoss=[]
ic=0
uc=0
ec=0
for i in rklist:
    col=collectprograms(i[0], i[1], i[2])
    for c in col:
        citer='|'.join(c)
        if citer not in collected:                
            if c[0].lower() in [b.lower() for b in blacklist]:
                if len(c)>4:
                    blacklisted+='%d %s == %s\n'%(ic+1, c[0], c[1])
                    us=ecmd(c[4])
                    if us==0:
                        uninstalled+='%d %s == %s\n'%(uc+1, c[0], c[1])
                        uc+=1
                    else:
                        error+='%d %s == %s - error code %d\n'%(ec+1, c[0], c[1], us)
                        ec+=1
                    ic+=1
                else:
                    blacklisted+='%d %s == %s\n'%(ic+1, c[0], c[1])
                    if c[3].startswith('MsiExec.exe'):
                        us=ecmd(c[3].replace('MsiExec.exe /I', 'MsiExec.exe /X')+' /qn')
                        if us==0:
                            uninstalled+='%d %s == %s\n'%(uc+1, c[0], c[1])
                            uc+=1
                        else:
                            error+='%d %s == %s - error code %d\n'%(ec+1, c[0], c[1], us)
                            ec+=1
                    else:
                        hasnoss.append('%s\n'%(citer))
                    ic+=1
            collected+=citer+'\n'
if blacklisted:
    print 'blacklisted programs found on your endpoint %s: \n%s'%(os.environ['COMPUTERNAME'], blacklisted)
    if uninstalled:
        print '\nprograms which are removed successfully: \n', uninstalled
    if error:
        print '\nerror at removing the programs: \n', error
    if hasnoss:
        print 'programs required user interaction to remove them (not removed by the procedure):'
        cc=0
        for h in hasnoss:
            print '%d %s == %s'%(cc+1, h.split('|')[0], h.split('|')[1])
            cc+=1
else:
    print 'no programs installed on your endpoint %s from your blacklist, here is your blacklisted programs'%os.environ['COMPUTERNAME']
    if blacklist:
        c=0
        for i in blacklist:
            if i==blacklist[-1]:
                print c+1, i+'\n'
                c+=1
            else:
                print c+1, i
                c+=1

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