Control Panel/Add & Remove Problem

[Guest]

Hi. We have Windows XP Home Edition, IE 6.0 SP2.

If I go into Control Panel and then into Add and Remove, it seems when I
populate the list of programs installed the list starts alphabetically by "A"
and then goes to "F". Then I have to scroll down to the remaining programs
beginning with "G" and ending at "Z".

This would not be a problem but I only have to scroll because there is a
huge black area that has formed between the F programs until the screen turns
back to listing the remaining programs. The dialogue box starts out all
black and then goes into black and white stripes. Very strange.

I don't know when this happened...when we downloaded SP2? I don't know but
I would really like to get rid of all the black and white in the add and
remove dialogue box.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thank you very much.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Jillian,

Download the fix from line 226 in the right column here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Guest]

Download the fix from line 226 in the right column here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

I have the IDENTICAL Add/Remove display window problem, right down to the
large black/white region beginning after the "F" entires. I launched Resedit
and went to the strings listed, but the instructions thereafter are very,
very vague about what exactly gets edited. There's no negative numbers in
strings I can see, "removing the last entry" means the last application
listed, the last "F" application, the last string inside a folder? It's not
very clear about what to actually edit out. I know enough to not proceed
further editing anything at this junction.

Any more specific directions would be greatly appreciated and a learning
experience.

Thanks!