No Programmes in Add/Remove Folder

[Guest]

I'm using XP Home with Service Pack 2 all updates are downloaded and
installed, when i go into control panel> Add/Remove Programmes> there are no
programmes in there> they are all in Programme files on my Hard Drive,
anybody can give me any ideas how to rectify this please> its a 200 GB HDD>
with a 6 GB Partition for the operating system> also i want to know how i can
create more Partitions to give me a number of Virtual Hard Drives....Help
Please?

 

[Guest]

Try line 384 here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Post back if that doesn't help. TTFN.

 

[Larry Gardner]

The above fix will only toggle Show Updates. Even if this is off, you
should still see Applications there. Show Updates is in order for you to
see Microsoft Update patches (the KB#####) files. The regular apps, as well
whatever third party programs you installed, should still be showing.

Is anything there ... or is the entire page blank?

First, do the following:

1. Open Regedit
2. Go to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
3. Expand the branch ('+')

Is anything there?

4. Close Regedit

If so, then do the following test:

1. Open System Restore (Start Menu | All Programs | Accessories | System
Tools | System Restore)
2. Is the page empty?

If so, then there are two files that have been corrupted. This took me
nearly 3 days to find. I almost rebuilt my system.
Somehow the following files have been overwritten:

1. %SystemRoot%\system32\shdocvw.dll
2. %SystemRoot%\system32\mshtml.dll

Add/Remove display is an html page, as is System Restore. I do not know
what has changed these, but the files had gotten changed. Compare you
versions to these:

shdocvw.dll: 6.00.2900.2877 (xpsp.060329-1554) Size: 1.42 MB (1,495,040
bytes) Created: Sunday, April 9, 2006, 11:40:05 AM Modified: Thursday,
March 30, 2006, 5:27:01 AM
mshtml.dll: 6.00.2900.2873 (xpsp.060322-1626) Size: 2.91 MB (3,055,616
bytes) Created: Sunday, April 9, 2006, 11:37:41 AM Modified: Thursday,
March 23, 2006, 4:31:39 PM

Those are the current versions I have on my system. Ensure this is the
problem by trying the System Restore display test.

 

[Guest]

No i must be a bit thick, that appears to delete files, i cant understand
when i install a programme it doesn't show up in the Add/Remove section in
Control panel, there are no programmes listed in Add/Remove, so if i download
a programme it doesn't put it in there so i cant delete it, if for any reason
i should need to, it just puts it into Programme folders on my HD...anymore
ideas, sorry i'm a bit non-technically minded?

 

[Guest]

hi, i opened regedit as you suggested, and expanded HKEY_current _user..only
thing that looks funny is ab(default) REG_SZ (value not set), in control
panel in Add/Remove Programmes the page is totally blank even when i have
installed my own programmes to the PC......i'm thick so dont really want to
mess with the registry. In system restore i can take it back to the last
checkpoint, but i'm a thick bugger so i dont really understand what you
mean...sorry Larry

 

[Larry Gardner]

Since you can see Checkpoints ... that test passed. It's not the
shdocvw.dll problem.

Don't know why you checked: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\....

My path for you to check was:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

The reason for that was because the list that you should see when you open
Add/Remove Programs is built from that Key.
Everything under that key shows up on the Add/Remove page. If that key is
empty ... that would mean that your list is gone.
There are ways to mark everything in that list to be hidden, so you're going
to have to look at the entries.

You said the page is COMPLETELY Blank. So you do not see:

Currently installed programs and updates:
Show updates Sort by: Name

You do not see that across the top, do you see any buttons on the left? Do
you see a Scroll Bar to the right?


Partitons:

Use Administrative Tools | Computer Management. Under Storage, click on
Disk Management.

If you do not have a application that permits Resizing partitions, and you
have Windows on the only partition. You cannot do it ... unless you backup,
and reformat.

There are apps out there ... that do this for you (www.v-com.com System
Commander - is one). They provide you the ability to resize an active
partition, so that you can create partitions from the free space on the
drive.