re: Clear Unwanted Entries from Add/Remove Programs -- Step 2
Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 10:10 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian Sinicki
(1 messages posted)
Just in case anyone finds this useful information,
I have been going round-and-round with this on XP and .NET-based applications. I
discovered that very important things may also be living here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\
On Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 4:25 pm, James Gerow wrote:
>
>Some of you may have followed the advice given in the previous posts and been left
>with orphaned entries in Add/Remove Programs, and haven't been able to delete them.
> Here's the second step involved if this is you case.
>
>Open the registry editor by selecting Start->Run.
>type 'regedit.exe' (without quotes) into the text box.
>
>Navigate to the key:
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products
>
>under this key you will see a number of 'long numbered' keys. Look inside each
one
>for the string value 'ProductName' if it contains the name of the entry you wish
>to remove simply delete the 'long numbered' key you found it in.
>
>E.g. You wish to remove the entry for 'Foo v1.1' in Add/Remove programs. You found
>the entry for it in:
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\0B79C053C7D38EE4AB9A00CB3B5D2472
>
>Simply delete this key, exit the registry editor, and confirm that the entry has
>been removed from the list under Add/Remove programs.
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