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Uninstall without an MSI file

Asked 2008-12-02T16:09:13.060
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I often get a problem with Windows Installer trying to uninstall a package, but it complains that:

The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

Is there a known means of uninstalling such packages when the original MSI is simply not available?

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Please note that Microsoft has now released an official tool to resolve these issues, without the problems that previously existed with MSIZAP.

answered 2012-06-15T21:24:56.820
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Take a look at a tool called MSIZap released by Microsoft.

UPDATE:

MsiZap.exe has been deprecated for quite some time. Its use is unsupported on all recent versions of Windows, and it is considered a very unsafe tool to use.

I added a link to a newer Microsoft support tool designed to clean out installations, but this tool also appears deprecated at this point. I have removed the link from the comments section.

Perhaps try the tool linked to in saschabeaumont's answer below.

answered 2008-12-02T16:38:31.457

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