Uninstall Apple QuickTime for Windows
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Description
| This task uninstalls Apple QuickTime for Windows. Important: Some applications might be affected and no longer work because of dependencies on QuickTime.These applications can include professional video, audio and digital imaging applications. Before you uninstall QuickTime, check the different application sites to know about QuickTime dependencies. Note: The Fixlet is released in https://bigfix.me/, which is not an official release channel of IBM BigFix. We highly suggest testing the content before deploying to production. Use of the content is done at the user’s own risk and the user will be solely responsible for any damage to any computer system or loss of data that results from use of the content. Warning: If the QuickTime Web Plugin is currently in use by Internet Explorer, the browser might crash during uninstall. As such this task has no default action. Credit goes to BrianCanFixIT of the BigFix community for originally crafting content to uninstall QuickTime. |
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| Uninstall Apple QuickTime for Windows | |
| Uninstall | |
| 4/18/2016 11:53:05 PM | |
| BigFix, Uninstall QuickTime, QuickTime, Apple, Quick Time Apple | |
| True | |
| shwesc on 4/18/2016 11:53:05 PM | |
| shwesc on 4/18/2016 11:53:05 PM | |
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Actions
Action 1
//Quit QuickTime Player if it is running
if {(exists running application "quicktimeplayer.exe")}
waithidden taskkill /F /IM quicktimeplayer.exe
endif
//Uninstalling quicktime player while the user is using the web plugin in internet explorer will crash internet explorer and requires a restart, firefox does not have this problem
waithidden "{pathname of system folder & "\msiexec.exe"}" /X{name of key whose (value "DisplayName" of it as string as lowercase contains "quicktime" and name of it starts with "{") of key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" of x32 registries} /QN REBOOT=ReallySuppress
if ({exit code of action}=3010)
action requires restart
endif
exit {exit code of action}
This action will be considered successful when the applicability relevance evaluates to false.
Action 2
//Quit QuickTime Player if it is running
if {(exists running application "quicktimeplayer.exe")}
waithidden taskkill /F /IM quicktimeplayer.exe
endif
//Quit internet explorer just in case it is are activly using quicktime, firefox does not have this problem
if {(exists running application "iexplore.exe")}
waithidden taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe
endif
//Uninstalling quicktime player
waithidden "{pathname of system folder & "\msiexec.exe"}" /X{name of key whose (value "DisplayName" of it as string as lowercase contains "quicktime" and name of it starts with "{") of key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" of x32 registries} /QN REBOOT=ReallySuppress
if ({exit code of action}=3010)
action requires restart
endif
exit {exit code of action}
This action will be considered successful when the applicability relevance evaluates to false.
Action 3
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