I elected not to use wmic because the queries take a very long time to return (it's tempting to think it's hung, looking at a blank and unblinking shell prompt for many tens of seconds. Get Name, Version, InstallDate, InstallLocation Wmic product where 'Vendor like '%Environmental Systems Research Institute%'' ^ Many more useful examples at WMIC Snippets, such as listing installed programs: wmic product where 'Name like '%ArcGIS%'' ^ Uninstall anything with ArcGIS in the title, all in one go (note the quirky wildcard syntax): wmic product where ^

'name = 'ArcGIS 10.1 SP1 for Desktop Background Geoprocessing (64-bit)'' ^ Uninstall a single named program: wmic product where ^ It only works for programs which use the msi installer in the first place, so things like ArcPad are not included.Ī more targeted and flexible approach would be to leverage Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC).

There's no intelligence to it, no testing to see if something is actually there, it just brute forces it's way through the list. (The 10.3+ list is incomplete, but more complete than the above Esri KB article).

I've put together uninstall-ALL-ArcGIS-products.bat which removes all ArcGIS products from 8.2 through 10.3.1. Remove the /passive to run silently (no pop-up progress window). There may be better methods but this does well enough for us right now - grab the Windows registry product codes from HowTo: Silently uninstall ArcGIS products and feed them to msiexec: msiexec /x %product_code% /qn /passive This recipe works for us, an extended version of KHibma's answer.

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