Skype Uninstall with Powershell

Alerts and Toolboxes
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Yes, Mike_D, please share the details. This is what I ended up doing:

Prerequisites: I already have an account on each PC with the same ID/Password that made this possible.

  1. I created a toolbox with the following script line. This created a single task that executed as the local user at a specific time and then never runs again. The RemoveSkype.bat file was a resource added to the toolbox:
    SCHTASKS /CREATE /SC ONCE /RU UserNameHere /TN RunOnce /TR “C:\Scripts\RemoveSkype.bat” /ST 21:30

  2. In the RemoveSkype.bat, I had the following lines to remove the 2 current versions of skype, and then to delete the task called RunOnce (created in step 1):
    powershell Remove-AppxPackage -Package "Microsoft.SkypeApp_15.61.100.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c"
    timeout 5
    powershell Remove-AppxPackage -Package "Microsoft.SkypeApp_15.63.76.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c"
    SCHTASKS /DELETE /TN “RunOnce” /F

  3. I didn’t care if the .bat file remained in the Scripts folder, so I left it. But I could have created another toolbox to delete the file if I needed to.

You can use this same method to also change HKCU registry changes and anything else that needs to run as a local user instead of SYSTEM.

I hope there is a better way than this hacked together process.

Hope this helps.

Drew