Rebuild Uninstall List

[Doug]

I'm using Vista Home Premium with conventional PC with dual core AMD
processor and 2GB RAM. My Control Panel/Programs/"Uninstall a program" list
only has one-third of my installed software listed, and most of what is
still listed has no install date. The software itself is working fine and
the whole system has settled down and is working really well. I don't see
any particular pattern to this and I am not sure when it happened, but
before my oldest restore point. Is there any way to rebuild the list?
Doug

 

[User]

Doug,

Rebuilding the Registry entries alone would be a pain. Perhaps this little
tool would be an alternative for you if you need to uninstall a program.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html

All the best,
George

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Doug,

The add/remove list is built from the registry under this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

If the entries don't exist as subkeys (may be a program named folder or a
GUID), then they won't be listed in add/remove. You'd have to look to see
what's there. If there is only the short list that matches add/remove, then
there's not much you can do beyond uninstalling/reinstalling each missing
program to rebuild the missing entry.

If however there is a long list with programs that don't show, then there is
a problem with some particular entry blocking the full listing. There is a
known issue in 2000/XP where a negative value in a DisplayIcon string would
cause a large white space after that particular entry, I'm not sure what
affect this would have in Vista but it's worth looking for.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com