Zach
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Zach got a reaction from Mark G38 in How to not allow end users to uninstall Pulseway ManagerYou're the best! Thank you for all your help!
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Edited because I'm silly and posted my old version. Please see the updated and correct one below. Â
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There are a couple of things you can do here.Â
1. Don't give regular users Admin rights on a machine. Of course this may not be a viable option for many businesses/end users.Â
2. Delete the reg key associated with the program displaying in Add/Remove Programs. Â
3. This is my preferred method of choice: Add a new reg key called "SystemComponent" with a dword value of 1 to HKLK:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{3AB4D18D-98B3-41EF-94EA-DA587F282BB1} (or whatever key your Pulseway is in for that last part). This will hide it from Add/Remove Programs. So unless the user is more advanced or really determined to find it and remove it, this should stop most normal end users. Value of 0 makes it appear again. Very easy to just deploy via script to all machines Pulseway is on.Â
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I do think that Pulseway should provide an option to password protect the uninstall, but this was brought up years ago and hasn't been provided, so I don't think they plan on it any time soon.Â