I opened up the Add/Remove section of 'Settings' today & the page is
blank. I rebooted and tried again, same thing. What's the fix for
this? (I have not installed or changed any programs recently and the
window was working fine a couple of days ago.) Any help would be
appreciated.

Scroll down to the bottom to see if there isn't just a big white space.

Courtesy of Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP-Shell/User

Add or Remove - White Space
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_a.htm#ws

[[This is generally due to the DisplayIcon having a negative number. From
here you can remove the negative number:
Start/Run/Regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{} ]]

AutoCad Fix
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs...dremovefix.zip

Autodesk Land Desktop 3 Fix
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs...dremovefix.zip
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I have AutoCAD LT 2000i. The white space in Add or Remove Programs usually
shows up after the AutoCAD LT 2000i listing. If you want to tweak the
registry...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
{5783F2D7-0065-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}
Value Name: DisplayIcon
Value Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: C:\Program Files\AutoCAD LT 2000i\aclt.exe,-1

Notice the aclt.exe,-1?? You can change it to read aclt.exe,1

Or you can run one of the fixes. I have both autocadaddremovefix.zip &
autodesk-landdesktop3-addremovefix.zip. They both include icons.
autocadaddremovefix.vbs is the one that works for me. It's easier to use
the fix than changing the -1.

I get the white space in Add or Remove Programs every time that I add or
remove a program. It isn't always AutoCAD LT that has the white space after
it, sometimes it's another program. At any rate, one of the fixes will
work. Until the next time.

autocadaddremovefix.vbs adds an autocad.ico icon to the %systemroot%\web
folder. It also adds this to the registry >>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
{5783F2D7-0101-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}
Value Name: DisplayIcon
Value Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Value Data: %systemroot%\web\autocad.ico

autodesk-landdesktop3-addremovefix.vbs adds an acad.ico icon to the
%systemroot%\web folder. It also adds this to the registry >>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
{5783F2D7-0138-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}
Value Name: DisplayIcon
Value Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Value Data: %systemroot%\web\acad.ico
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***
From snowman...
AutoCAD 2002 is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
{5783F2D7-0101-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}
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***
From anonymous poster...

One application causes the problem for me. I just removed the reference to
that program in regedit and the black spot dissapeared.
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Here is a script which lists all the negative icon references and sends them
to a log file.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/utils/
ARPNegCheck.vbs
Lists all negative icon references in Add/Remove

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/reg/ARPNegCheck.vbs

From...
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

Dowload the script. Run it by double clicking ARPNegCheck.vbs.
NegativeIcons.txt will be saved to your Desktop.

Why does Add or Remove Programs show a large blank space?
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar...26/422076.aspx

Add-Remove Programs tool displays installed programs incorrectly
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266668


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
E. Barry Bruyea <(E-Mail Removed)> hunted and pecked:
> I opened up the Add/Remove section of 'Settings' today & the page is
> blank. I rebooted and tried again, same thing. What's the fix for
> this? (I have not installed or changed any programs recently and the
> window was working fine a couple of days ago.) Any help would be
> appreciated.

Basically you have a file that needs registering, but if you have part of
the list then that means the last entry is corrupt

Try this:

Click START
Click RUN
Type 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL Appwiz.cpl'
Click OK

This should solve your problems

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:41:04 -0000, "Newbie Coder"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Basically you have a file that needs registering, but if you have part of
>the list then that means the last entry is corrupt
>
>Try this:
>
>Click START
>Click RUN
>Type 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL Appwiz.cpl'
>Click OK
>
>This should solve your problems


There is nothing on the list; the window is blank and as I said in my
original post, I've changed nothing on my computer in weeks and have
not installed or removed anything and the day before it was working
fine.

E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
> I opened up the Add/Remove section of 'Settings' today & the page is
> blank. I rebooted and tried again, same thing. What's the fix for
> this? (I have not installed or changed any programs recently and the
> window was working fine a couple of days ago.) Any help would be
> appreciated.

This suggests a DisplayName or uninstall key name could be too long.
Since there's been no change recently, maybe is was a bad write to the
hd(?).

All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240348

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Joe =o)

> Type 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL Appwiz.cpl'

Start | Run | Type: appwiz.cpl | Click OK is *all* that's needed to open
Add or Remove Programs. I subscribe to the KISS principle.

You could use an even longer command if you wanted to...

%systemroot%\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
%systemroot%\system32\Appwiz.cpl

The command wrapped, one space between Control_RunDLL and %systemroot.

If you want to further complicate it...

%systemroot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%systemroot%\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
%systemroot%\system32\Appwiz.cpl

The command wrapped twice, one space between rundll32.exe and %systemroot%
and one space between Control_RunDLL and %systemroot%.

I can find no way to complicate this further. ;-)

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Newbie Coder <(E-Mail Removed)> hunted and pecked:
> Basically you have a file that needs registering, but if you have part of
> the list then that means the last entry is corrupt
>
> Try this:
>
> Click START
> Click RUN
> Type 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL Appwiz.cpl'
> Click OK
>
> This should solve your problems

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:08:04 -0500, Elmo <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
>> I opened up the Add/Remove section of 'Settings' today & the page is
>> blank. I rebooted and tried again, same thing. What's the fix for
>> this? (I have not installed or changed any programs recently and the
>> window was working fine a couple of days ago.) Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>
>This suggests a DisplayName or uninstall key name could be too long.
>Since there's been no change recently, maybe is was a bad write to the
>hd(?).
>
>All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs Tool
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240348



According to the notation, this does not apply to XP.

E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:08:04 -0500, Elmo <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
>>> I opened up the Add/Remove section of 'Settings' today & the page is
>>> blank. I rebooted and tried again, same thing. What's the fix for
>>> this? (I have not installed or changed any programs recently and the
>>> window was working fine a couple of days ago.) Any help would be
>>> appreciated.
>> This suggests a DisplayName or uninstall key name could be too long.
>> Since there's been no change recently, maybe is was a bad write to the
>> hd(?).
>>
>> All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs Tool
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240348
>
>
>
> According to the notation, this does not apply to XP.

Here's another:

Add/Remove Programs tool displays installed programs incorrectly
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266668/kb/266668

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