Add/Removed page problem

This is my second try for assistance as the first didn't work. On my new
Toshiba laptop XP SP2 the add/remove listed programs use the top 10% and
the bottom 10% of the entire page. The remaining 80% in the center of the
page is blank or has wide black vertical stripes. Lots of scrolling between
the two portions. The first suggestion was a defect in the
Hkey_Local_Machine\software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion \Uninstall,
which is the only place I can find mention of Add/Remove. It suggested that
a ",-1" at the end of the line was causing the problem. The only line that
I have is "C:\windows\system32\addremove.ico", and nothing more.
Suggestions please. TIA, ***


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