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Uninstall the FileWave Client on Windows

Description

Use

The belowthis Fileset canwhen beyou usedneed to uninstall the FileWave clientClient onfrom Windows machines.computers before archiving, deleting, selling, or otherwise removing those devices from FileWave management.

Ingredients

Deploy the uninstaller while the device can still receive Filesets. After the FileWave Client is removed, the device will no longer check in to the FileWave Server through the client.

Before you begin

  • FWTest Adminthe uninstaller on a small pilot group before broad deployment.
  • Make sure no required Filesets, scripts, or inventory actions still need to run on the device.
Plan the follow-up state change: archive the client if you need to keep the record, or delete the record if it should be removed from FileWave.

Download

Windows-ClientUninstaller-modern-2026-07-03.fileset.zip

This updated Fileset reads the Windows uninstall registry entries and runs the FileWave Client uninstall Filesetcommand silently.

It does not use wmic or the Win32_Product WMI class.

Directions

  1. Download the attached Fileset fromand theunzip recipe.it.
  2. Drag and drop the unzipped Fileset ininto to your Filesets tab. Please make sure to drag it in yourthe root level of yourthe Filesets structuretab so it is not accidentally deployed tofrom devices.inside Thisanother Fileset will uninstall the client and break communication to your FileWave server.folder.
  3. Associate the Fileset to machinesthe Windows computers that youshould wantbe removed from FileWave management.
Run a Model Update. Confirm the uninstall has had time to removerun fromon FileWave.the targeted devices. OnceArchive or delete the FileWave records as appropriate, then run another Model Update.

How the Fileset isworks

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The outFileset uses PowerShell to inspect these uninstall registry locations:

    HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

    When it finds the devicesFileWave willClient notuninstall checkentry, backit inruns the matching MSI uninstall command with quiet/no-restart options. This avoids the deprecated WMIC command-line utility and avoids querying Win32_Product, which Microsoft documents as a class that can trigger Windows Installer consistency checks.

    After uninstall

    Once the FileWave Client is removed, the device cannot receive additional FileWave Client commands. If the record is only being kept for history, archive it. If the device should be deletedremoved from FileWave.FileWave entirely, delete the record and run Update Model.

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