Re: Add/Remove Programs

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:41:00 -0500

Thanks, Mike.

Update: This seemed to have been confused between the Change/Remove button
(bottom right of each installed program) within Add or Remove and the Change
or Remove Programs Tab (per se').

Restore Change or Remove Programs Tab (Line 337) Right hand side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Work still in progress....... 

-- 
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
"Mike Schmieg" <schmieg@one.net> wrote in message 
news:48a001c4801e$798351c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
Kelly, you're going to love this one. That tweak
partially fixed the problem. Now some of the program
entries have the button and some of them don't. This
indicates to me that those now lacking the button
probably have corrupted uninstall data in the registry.
But it is s a big improvement over the previous situation.
---- Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly [mailto:kelly@mvps.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:46 PM
> To: schmieg@one.net
> Subject: Re: Add/Remove Programs
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  Try the edit on line 337
(right hand side)
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
>
> If this helps, post this update to the thread we have
going in the
> newsgroup.  If not, I will add it when I get there in
several hours.
>
> Good luck and keep me posted.
>
> All the Best,
> Kelly
>
> Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
> 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
>
> Troubleshooting Windows XP
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael M. Schmieg" <schmieg@one.net>
> To: <kelly@mvps.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:29 AM
> Subject: Add/Remove Programs
>
>
> You said you would be interested in troubleshooting
this with
> me, but I'm at
> a loss of where to go next. I tried the registry
patches that
> you directed
> me to, with no luck. The MS article dealt with the
Japanese version of
> Windows which I don't run. I ran FreshUI which has an
option
> to show the
> Remove/Modify buttons or hide them and toggled the
switch
> both ways with no
> luck. I've checked the services to see if there was
anything
> that might be
> affecting this and found nothing. I even copied
appwiz.cpl
> from one of my
> other machines to see if that might do it, but no.
>
> This is my daughter's machine and I suspect that she
loaded
> some weird stuff
> now and then which screwed things up. It also had a
problem a
> few weeks back
> with the wireless connection in which it reported that
TCP/IP Network
> Transport was not loaded and I had to perform a System
> Restore to get that
> back online. She is leaving for college this weekend
with a
> brand new Dell
> Inspiron 8600 with the 2 mhz Dothan processor in it, so
she
> has pretty much
> abandoned the desktop to destroy the setup in the new
machine
> <grin>. I plan
> to convert this machine to a home backup for my wife's
and my
> laptops which
> we can access through the home network and through the
> internet so I will
> probably end up just wiping the hard drive and
reinstalling
> from scratch. My
> daughter did want me to keep some of her stuff on it,
but I can always
> reinstall her stuff and restore the data from the DAT
tape
> drive on it. But
> this has me intrigued and I've been playing with it
rather
> than take the
> easy way out.
>
> As a side note, since I moved her PDA from this machine
to
> the new one, I
> tried to uninstall ActiveSync using Norton Uninstall.
It searched all
> partitions and supposedly found the files and data to
> uninstall the program,
> but, after it ran, the program was still there and
running. I
> checked the
> registry and, apparently, no entries had been deleted.
The only thing
> removed was the entry in the start menu. So I suspect,
with all of the
> playing around she has done on it in the last couple of
> years, that the
> registry is pretty much scrambled and I'm not sure
exactly
> where to look for
> the problem. All the things that I do know about appear
fine.
>
> Didn't mean to write a book here, but I thought that if
I
> told you what I
> had tried, you might have a better idea of the nature
of the
> problem, if not
> to help me, to help future sufferers. I won't be doing
a
> fresh install until
> next weekend at the earliest since this weekend I'll be
driving her to
> college. Thanks for your efforts though.
>
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