I had several versions of Java on my PC and I lamented the fact that I needed to use “Add/Remove Programs†to remove them. This script came in handy although my copy and paste of the code needed several fixups before it would work. The single and double quotes from the copy were funky according to DOS. So I have posted my cleaned up copy. The SyntaxHighlighter Plus plugin has solved this copy problem for me in the past. Good Luck!
Rem to run this file and log the output use: "uninstall java.bat">>java_remove.log Rem @echo off & cls Rem List all Installation subkeys from uninstall key. echo Searching Registry for Java Installs for /f %%I in ('reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall') do echo %%I | find "{" > nul && call :All-Installations %%I echo Search Complete.. goto :NoneFound :All-Installations Rem Filter out all but the Sun Installations for /f "tokens=2*" %%T in ('reg query %1 /v Publisher 2^> nul') do echo %%U | find "Sun" > nul && call :Sun-Installations %1 goto :EOF :Sun-Installations Rem Filter out all but the Sun-Java Installations. Note the tilda + n, which drops all the subkeys from the path echo %1 for /f "tokens=2*" %%T in ('reg query %1 /v DisplayName 2^> nul') do echo . Uninstalling - %%U: | find "Java" && call :Sun-Java-Installs %~n1 if errorlevel 1 ( echo Doing further conditional checking on variables. for /f "tokens=2*" %%T in ('reg query %1 /v DisplayName 2^> nul') do echo . Uninstalling - %%U: | find "J2SE" && call :Sun-Java-Installs %~n1 ) goto :EOF :Sun-Java-Installs Rem Run Uninstaller for the installation MsiExec.exe /x%1 /qb /quiet /passive /promptrestart echo . Uninstall Complete, Resuming Search.. goto :EOF :NoneFound Rem No Java found to remove from this system echo No Java found or all versions already removed from this system goto :EOF