Installed programs vanished from Add/Remove progs!

[Carl Sheldon]

Just went into add/remove programs and more than half my installed progs
have vanished!! All the progs missing work perfectly fine but cant see them
in add/remove progs. Is there a registry key I can change to get them back??
Appreciate your thoughts. Carl S

 

[KB]

Just went into add/remove programs and more than half my installed progs
have vanished!! All the progs missing work perfectly fine but cant see them
in add/remove progs. Is there a registry key I can change to get them back??
Appreciate your thoughts. Carl S

Maybe doing a System Restore back to before this occured?

 

[Brian]

Take a close look to the right when you open add/remove. is there a scroll
bar that will allow you to scroll down to the bottom? They may not have
disappeared but there is a large space between the one you see and the next
one on the list.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Do you have AutoCad installed? If that's the case, see this response from
MVPs Wesley Vogel & Kelly.
http://groups.google.co.in/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/3632fda54259d28e?hl=en&

If that does not apply to your situation, then download my script below and
run it. Post the results here. This script lists all the negative icon
references present in the registry, and sends them to a log file.

Script
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/utils/ARPNegCheck.vbs
(Lists all negative icon references in Add/Remove)

Technical details at
The Old New Thing : Why does Add or Remove Programs show a large blank
space?:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/05/26/422076.aspx

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
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