Uninstall FileZilla

[Romanitho]

@KnifMelti I have a question regarding the way you uninstall FileZilla. You run a Mod script to wait for the uninstall popup to be clicked on, right ? Cause in a system context, this popup is not visible... 🤔

[KnifMelti]

Well, it is (in production too)...

[KnifMelti]

Maybe give another example in the ReadMe?

[Romanitho]

In SCCM, in system context, no window is shown. Except if I use ServiceUI.exe in propose, that can show the system process to a user session ID (That I use to troubleshoot for instance). But by default, in system context you don't have access as user. Fortunately :)

[Romanitho]

In SCCM when you presents it in Software Center as available it gives the users a button to instell/uninstall whenever they like. But it runs in system context via SCCM agent

100% agree. But no process is shown to user. So for example, if a user want to uninstall FileZilla because it was available, it will not work with our winget-install script as it show the uninstaller window.

[Romanitho]

Maybe give another example in the ReadMe?

Maybe we can pick an example for installation, yes.
The thing is, we can keep your mods feature anyway as it can be interesting obviously. For uninstalls, I recommend to use the original ones for system context. But i know that on winget side, they work on better handling uninstallations.

[KnifMelti]

Well, I can manufacture an installation that deletes the Desktop icon for the program (that we don't want)

[KnifMelti]

Heres the reality (with our old solution built on your scripts):

[Romanitho]

So weird 😄

[KnifMelti]

Wev'e been using this available way in deployments (not a mandatory deployment) since forever.
You maybe only works with mandatory deployments?

[Romanitho]

When I remove my silent switch, I have the notepad++ uninstall prompt as well, even as system. I didn't remember that under SCCM, my bad ;)
but I always use quiet or silent switches to avoid any prompt. A reflex ^^
It means that by default SCCM uses ServiceUI.exe or something, not native behaviour under Intune (or I say shi* again 😅)

by the way, that's why I use winget-install script to install, but not to uninstall https://github.com/Romanitho/Winget-Install#uninstall
because in your context, you are waiting for actions from end user. Not really like this for our users

[KnifMelti]

Glad we agree on the SCCM available deployment function! :=)
Well, it's up to our users when to install/uninstall the whitelisted WinGet applications from Software Center.
And via winget uninstall you get this behavior from some applications, that's why I came up with the Mods solution in the first place (that and the fact I wanted a way to delete desktop shortcuts/populate the registry/copy som settings file etc) in this framework we're using...
...and this takes care of the actions from end users when it comes to FileZilla uninstall :)

[KnifMelti]

...I've also seen that winget is going to get better support for uninstallation of applications in the future.
That's good!

[Romanitho]

that's why as a workaround suggested a homemade uninstall way. either the native uninstall (like "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\uninstall.exe" /S for Notepad++) or custom script (if you want to do more :) ).
At the end, you added a feature that can help for more than just uninstall shity apps ^^

[KnifMelti]

And, your idea of an install-once was excellent!