about Add/Remove Programs

[Guest]

there are a lot of programmes installed in my computer but it doesnt show in the "Add/Remove Programs", i am not able to remove them, why is it so?

 

[Malke]

there are a lot of programmes installed in my computer but it doesnt
show in the "Add/Remove Programs", i am not able to remove them, why
is it so?

Sometimes that happens if the programs were installed in a different
user account. Sometimes the program wasn't written well and doesn't put
a reference to its uninstaller where it should. Go to the program
folder and look for something like "uninst.exe" or the like and
double-click it. Otherwise, repost and tell us what some of the
programs are.

Malke

 

[Guest]

there are a lot of programmes installed in my computer but it doesnt show in the "Add/Remove Programs", i am not able to remove them, why is it so?

 

[Peter]

I installed this free tool - "Add-Remove Master" at
http://mmhsoft.click-now.net/Arm.html It works where MS add/remove
doesn't, it also goes one step further and removes those stubbon entries
that refuse to leave that list even after program is uninstalled.

 

[Plato]

Sometimes that happens if the programs were installed in a different
user account. Sometimes the program wasn't written well and doesn't put
a reference to its uninstaller where it should. Go to the program
folder and look for something like "uninst.exe" or the like and
double-click it. Otherwise, repost and tell us what some of the
programs are.

Many good utils dont mate with windows and simply unpack to their own
folder. In that case just delete the folder.