The company I work at goes through computers fairly regularly. When we get a new computer, someone has to manually go through and remove all the bloatware that comes with the computer. Right now, I am compiling a database of known bloatware and their silent uninstall commands, but many programs either don't have or require a silent uninstall script to be created. I'm wondering if there are any methods that I have missed that would silently reduce the windows installation to just the barebones OS and drivers.
On my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 I can't do anything with the existing instance of MS SQL Server 2008 R2. It was my mistake to uninstall some components related to SQL Server before running the main uninstaller.
Now the uninstaller seems like doing its job and reporting "All done", but in the end nothing happens, "\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server" folder still has 700 Mb of content. Reboot has no effect.
How to remove SQL Server 2008 R2 manually?
I've installed some things manually in the past and would like to weed out all related files. So, I need a way to automatically find all the files (in /usr, for example) that are not included in any of the packages currently installed on the Debian system. However, I would also need to filter out the files that are created during package installation (by dpkg post-install scripts and similar things).
I installed ruby 1.9 on my fedora 13 machine from source. I want to go back and use the older 1.8.6 (which I'll install with yum), unfortunetly it appears that I can't simply uninstall my current version by "make uninstall" (make: *** No rule to make targetuninstall'. Stop.`).
Is there any way of doing this other than removing each individual file?
I've installed gitosis on my dramhost machine but now I want to uninstall it because it's causing more problems than solutions.
The thing is that I can't find how to uninstall it. I deleted the ~/repositories directories but of course all the bins are still included. Also I'm more worried about what it did to ssh configurations.