Alan
Wed Feb 18 01:09:09 CST 2004
You are in the right place.
If you persist, you will have an excellent chance to get this fixed.
All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs
Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q240/3/48.asp
I have fixed several of these recently for others.
The problem will occur in these two situations:
1. The uninstall keyname for an application is greater than 63
characters.
Solution: Rename the keyname.
e.g. this is invalid
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234]
2. The DisplayName for the key is greater than 63 characters.
Solution: Shorten DisplayName
e.g. this is invalid
"DisplayName"="1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234"
If you need a second opinion, export the key to a text file and email
it to me.
*** Note that the invalid entry that can cause this is not necessarily
connected with the ones missing so you must check all entries.
....Alan
Alan Edwards MS MVP W95/98 Systems
In microsoft.public.windowsme.general, "Joey Kurpiel"
<chisox5686@netscape.net> wrote:
>I don't know if im in the right place to ask this question
>but for some reason it doesn't show any programs for me to
>remove in the add remove folder. I need to remove a couple
>programs but i can't because it doesn't show anything to
>remove. Can somebody please tell me what is wrong and what
>i can do to fix it.