Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

because it, the results, have to built on the fly and however this is done
is taking a while to itterate through the registry?

"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
> Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> www.grystmill.com
>
>
>

Of course, but the effect isn't constant... In my experience, the delay
doesn't build in steady increments as more apps are added. It seem to *jump*
from taking a relatively short amount of time to taking a really, really
long time, from under a minute to several minutes. I just want to know if
anyone has found a way to deal with it. As I said, I don't know the answer,
or even if there *is* an answer other than, "You're SOL".

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> because it, the results, have to built on the fly and however this is done
> is taking a while to itterate through the registry?
>
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
> news:ueaz7%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
>> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
>> Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?
>>
>> --
>> Gary S. Terhune
>> MS-MVP Shell/User
>> www.grystmill.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>

mine averages
5-10 seconds

however, my machines
are optimize in spite
of the contrarian ineptitudes.

--

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"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
news:ueaz7%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and
> offline) and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long
> to populate Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> www.grystmill.com
>
>
>

"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote
> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
> Add/Remove Programs?
An even (more? less) minor annoyance is why Add/Remove Programs gets the
"Used" information so consistently wrong. I use the DiVX codec several times
every day for example yet ARP says I use it "rarely". Same for IrfanView,
which I use almost hourly. On the other hand not a single item in the list
is marked "frequently" even though I do use quite a few of them quite
frequently.

Frankly I think this is a bit of disinformation that we are better off
without.


--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

If you ever get a useful answer, lemme know.

Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
> Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?

Unfortunately, while I think that useless and time-consuming part of the
utility should be done away with (or fixed), I don't think MS is going to do
it, and I doubt there's any way to disable it. I hope that isn't the crux of
the problem.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Opinicus" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote
>> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
>> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
>> Add/Remove Programs?
> An even (more? less) minor annoyance is why Add/Remove Programs gets the
> "Used" information so consistently wrong. I use the DiVX codec several
> times every day for example yet ARP says I use it "rarely". Same for
> IrfanView, which I use almost hourly. On the other hand not a single item
> in the list is marked "frequently" even though I do use quite a few of
> them quite frequently.
>
> Frankly I think this is a bit of disinformation that we are better off
> without.
>
>
> --
> Bob
> http://www.kanyak.com
>

Your reply is NOT a good sign! If you don't know, I think I'll give up.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"PA Bear" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> If you ever get a useful answer, lemme know.
>
> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
>> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and offline)
>> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
>> Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?

[I'd post something about all the Security Updates listed in Add/Remove
Programs but I don't wanna start an MS-bashing contest here.

PS: You're not the first to wonder about this either:
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=...=1&sa=N&tab=wg &
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&...B+slow&spell=1 ]

Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> Your reply is NOT a good sign! If you don't know, I think I'll give up.
>
>
> "PA Bear" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:OA%23%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> If you ever get a useful answer, lemme know.
>>
>> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
>>> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and
>>> offline)
>>> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
>>> Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?

And you are correct. Removing the checkmark from Show Updates and restarting Add\Remove shows a big difference in time. But who would want to uncheck that.

--
Peter

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"PA Bear" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> [I'd post something about all the Security Updates listed in Add/Remove
> Programs but I don't wanna start an MS-bashing contest here.
>
> PS: You're not the first to wonder about this either:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?num=...=1&sa=N&tab=wg &
> http://www.google.com/search?num=20&...B+slow&spell=1 ]
>
> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
>> Your reply is NOT a good sign! If you don't know, I think I'll give up.
>>
>>
>> "PA Bear" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:OA%23%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> If you ever get a useful answer, lemme know.
>>>
>>> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
>>>> Only a minor annoyance for me, but others have asked (online and
>>>> offline)
>>>> and I don't know the answer. Why does it take so damned long to populate
>>>> Add/Remove Programs? Can anything be done about it?
>