Windows Add or Remove Programs

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This is a bit silly really, but I have a program listed in the 'Add or Remove Program' list, but which is no longer on my hard drive.

For the sake of tidyness is there anyway of removing it from the list?

[BandWidthJunkie]

You can edit the registry using regedit if you are comfortable doing that.

Quote from PCAnswers: -

"First locate the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall. Each sub key that you see represents an application that’s installed on your system. The sub keys are labelled with unique identification numbers - this means that you won’t be able to see what they relate to at a glance. Instead, go through them one at a time and the String value called DisplayName will divulge the name of the application it relates to. Once you’ve identified the sub key for the program you want to remove, simply right-click it and choose delete. When you return to Add or Remove Programs you should see that the stubborn application has finally been removed."

Hope this helps.

[andrew1810]

If you click on remove, it should ask you if it wants you to delete the item when it fails to uninstall (on Windows XP)

on older versions, tweakui did that

[Ian J]

Tweak UI will get rid of it for you

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Originally Posted by Ian J

Tweak UI will get rid of it for you

Look at you giving computer advice

I had a look at Tweak UI last night after having a look at the MS website, but couldn't see an option for the 'Add or Remove Programs' despite the instructions on their web site.

Am I missing the obvious?

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Originally Posted by BandWidthJunkie

You can edit the registry using regedit if you are comfortable doing that.

Quote from PCAnswers: -

"First locate the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall. Each sub key that you see represents an application that’s installed on your system. The sub keys are labelled with unique identification numbers - this means that you won’t be able to see what they relate to at a glance. Instead, go through them one at a time and the String value called DisplayName will divulge the name of the application it relates to. Once you’ve identified the sub key for the program you want to remove, simply right-click it and choose delete. When you return to Add or Remove Programs you should see that the stubborn application has finally been removed."

Hope this helps.

This very almost worked. It changed the program on the list from being able to try and uninstall it to where it just stated it was 'rarely' used.

In the end I just did a Control F find in the registry and deleted all reference to that program. Seems to have gone now, but wouldn't like to say if my PC will boot up again through the amount of stuff I deleted.

[LFC_SL]

Another great program is CCleaner