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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Add/Remove Programs'
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 9:03 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by james
(1 messages posted)
I have an entry in add/remove which appears to originate in HKCR\installer\products\[a
guid]\. If I remove this key it goes or if I edit the ProductName value in this
key it is picked up. It does not have a change/remove button. There are other
similar keys for items which do have a change/remove button. I cannot see uninstall
keys for either nor can I see a difference to explain the presence or absence of
the button. I tried creating an uninstall key using the same GUID and taking the
uninstall string from HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\installer\userdata\s-1-5-18\products\[tge
same guid]\installproperties\
This results in an additional add/remove entry which has the change/remove button.
The uninstall works (although it leaves the new add/remove entry orphaned so I am
removing the key with another program
On Sunday, May 11, 2003 at 10:58 am, Michael wrote:
>I have a question about Clear
>Unwanted Entries from Add/Remove Programs:
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>In previously trying to delete unwanted entries in my add/remove program list, I
>used the Registry Optimizer in a program called Windows System Optimizer, it showed
>several registry keys to delete that were no longer needed that I deleted. Now
those
>programs are still in the add/remove programs list, but there is neither a 'change/remove'
>button with them now nor are there keys in the registry editor for them. Your tip
>with using the Regisrty Editor, which unfortunately I saw after toying around with
>the above Optimizer, allowed me to remove other unwanted items from this list, but
>not two for which I cannot remove nor do I have a key in the registry to delete
(since
>it was already deleted without removing the listing from add/remove programs).
If
>anyone knows how to get rid of these, do please pass on word. Thanks!
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