Noel
Wed Feb 18 00:29:23 CST 2004
Joey
Here's Alan Edwards' take on this problem......
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\1234
567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234]
2. The DisplayName for the key is greater than 63 characters.
Solution: Shorten DisplayName
e.g. this is invalid
"DisplayName"="1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
234"
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
HTH
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"Joey Kurpiel" <chisox5686@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:1175a01c3f5d0$839d1b60$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> There used to be a whole list of programs to remove and
> now there is nothing in there. Not one program. I don't
> know what happened. I want to know how to get those
> programs listed again so i can delete it from there
> because the program doesn't have a seperate installer.