Google Earth Uninstall SCCM: Step-by-Step Removal Guide

Uninstalling Google Earth via SCCM

Google Earth Pro ships as an MSI, which makes it straightforward to remove silently through a Configuration Manager application or package/program, the same way you’d handle any other MSI-based uninstall. If you deployed it originally as an SCCM application with detection tied to the MSI product code, the simplest approach is to create an uninstall deployment type using:

msiexec /x {ProductCode} /qn /norestart

You’ll need the actual product GUID for the version you deployed — you can pull it from the machine’s installed-programs registry key (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall) or from the original MSI properties if you still have the install source. Alternatively, if Google Earth was installed via its EXE bootstrapper rather than the raw MSI, check HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall for its UninstallString and adapt that into your SCCM uninstall command line instead — bootstrapped installs sometimes wrap the MSI with their own uninstall executable rather than exposing msiexec directly.

Finding the Product Code Without Digging Through the Registry Manually

If you don’t already know the exact product code and don’t want to hunt through registry keys by hand, PowerShell can pull it for you directly:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*Google Earth*"} | Select-Object Name, IdentifyingNumber

IdentifyingNumber is the product GUID you need for the msiexec /x command above. Worth noting: Win32_Product triggers a consistency check across every installed MSI on the machine when queried, which can be slow and has been known to trigger reinstall/repair actions in some environments — for a one-off lookup on a single machine it’s generally fine, but avoid running it routinely across a large collection. If you’re building this into an ongoing inventory or detection method rather than a one-time lookup, querying the registry uninstall keys directly (as above) is the lighter-weight approach. Once you have the uninstall command working reliably against a test machine, wrapping it as an SCCM uninstall deployment type and targeting it at whichever collection currently has Google Earth installed (a WQL query against the same registry data works well for building that collection) completes the removal at scale.

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