Re: Add/Remove Programs Does Not Show All Programs Installed?
From: mopoke (glugsofgosh_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/25/04
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Date: 25 Apr 2004 16:23:09 -0700
"Kelly" <kelly@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<#pID7FqKEHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> I don't know what your original post was, but before doing a System Restore,
> please check the path again:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
>
> If your issue has to do with great amounts of white space between listings,
> this can be corrected.
>
> --
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> Kelly
>
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I dont have great amounts of white space between listings. ( I have
read your tips under 'Add/Remove') The 'Uninstall' string just does
not exist in the registry.
> In xp pro when I open add/remove Programs there is only 5 entries, & I
> dont have any options to Change/Remove. ie. nothing happens when I
> click on it.
> -Adobe Reader 6
> -Highmet ext. to MS Windows xp cd etc.
> -HP photo & Imaging 1.0 etc.
> -ShareIns.
> -WebFldrs xp.
> Yet I have over 20 programs installed including Zone alarm pro,
> Ad-aware & SpyBot, AVG 6. All these are uptodate.
>
> Checked for reg. - HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
> and the 'Uninstall' does not exist. Also, I cant see this 'Uninstall'
> 'string' anywhere in the registry settings mentioned in Kellys' 'xp
> a-z'- 'add/remove' tips.
> I am logged in as 'Administrator"
> From the 'Start - All Programs' nearly all the programs listed here
> have the 'Uninstall' function.
>
> I have scoured the forums & read Kellys A-Z. But I am none the wiser.
> Even with the programs listed in 'Add/Remove Programs' there is no
> 'Change/Remove'option.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks, Alan
>
> Athlon 1g, dual boot 20g(98se) & 40g(xppro), 512ram. xp pro sp1a + all
> updates etc. to date
> 'Previously I asked in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration manage'
>
>
> "mopoke" <glugsofgosh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e80bdb87.0404250035.f8beffd@posting.google.com...
> > Alex Nichol <alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote in message
> > news:<dppk801fjioalihlhajfqhdm266e5vi12k@4ax.com>...
> >> mopoke wrote:
> >> >Checked for reg. -
> >> >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
> >> >and the 'Uninstall' does not exist.
> >>
> >> That key is central to the Add/Remove (without it I don't quite see how
> >> there is *anything* to show there). I'd suggest as a start trying to
> >> get back to a registry that still had it - use
> >> Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore
> >> to go back to a suitable earlier point, as far back as you can without
> >> either losing major program installs you know you have made since, or
> >> trying to go back past the install of SP1
> >
> > OK. Will give a go. The worst that can happen is to go back as far as
> > 16/2/2004, the day I installed xp pro & reinstall any programs etc.
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