{"id":27563,"date":"2007-03-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/03\/20\/i-bet-somebody-is-looking-to-get-a-really-nice-bonus-for-that-feature-uninstall\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T10:00:00","slug":"i-bet-somebody-is-looking-to-get-a-really-nice-bonus-for-that-feature-uninstall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070320-00\/?p=27563","title":{"rendered":"I bet somebody is looking to get a really nice bonus for that feature: Uninstall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A customer asked the following question (paraphrased): <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Does the Windows&nbsp;XP Add\/Remove Programs control panel expose a scriptable object model? We want our program to open the Add\/Remove Programs control panel and uninstall the programs of our competitors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> No, there is no object model for the Add and Remove Programs control panel, and it frightens me that you&#8217;re even contemplating what you&#8217;re suggesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer asked the following question (paraphrased): Does the Windows&nbsp;XP Add\/Remove Programs control panel expose a scriptable object model? We want our program to open the Add\/Remove Programs control panel and uninstall the programs of our competitors. No, there is no object model for the Add and Remove Programs control panel, and it frightens me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-27563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A customer asked the following question (paraphrased): Does the Windows&nbsp;XP Add\/Remove Programs control panel expose a scriptable object model? We want our program to open the Add\/Remove Programs control panel and uninstall the programs of our competitors. No, there is no object model for the Add and Remove Programs control panel, and it frightens me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}