Help with Add/Remove programs

[Guest]

Hi all,

When I go into Add/Remove programs, it will list about 20 or programs (A-E)
then a huge amount of space is filled with black. At some spots it is almost
like looking a t a zebra, there are black and white columns. Then the normal
program list continues with letters G-Z.

I am running Win Xp home Service pack 2.

I do have the auto update turned off (now it is). This is the first time I
have gone into Add/Remove programs on this machine. It has been running for
about 10 months or so.

Any help is appreciated,

George

 

[Guest]

Just alittle more info:

I do not have Autocad, so the links from Kellys do not help.

I ran that VBS script to see any icons with a negative, ther was one with
-111, another with -101 and two with -0. Those values were removed. But I
still have the black and white lines.

George

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

George,

This is usually caused by one of the applications that's using Windows
Installer (not all). See if using the third-party MyUninstaller utility can
help.

MyUninstaller: Alternative to the standard Windows Add / Remove module:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi all,

When I go into Add/Remove programs, it will list about 20 or programs (A-E)
then a huge amount of space is filled with black. At some spots it is
almost
like looking a t a zebra, there are black and white columns. Then the
normal
program list continues with letters G-Z.

I am running Win Xp home Service pack 2.

I do have the auto update turned off (now it is). This is the first time I
have gone into Add/Remove programs on this machine. It has been running for
about 10 months or so.

Any help is appreciated,

George

 

[Guest]

Ramesh,
I am having the exact symptons described by George. I also do not have
autocad and the links for Kelly do not apply. I do not wish to uninstall any
programs at this time, I only want to remove the black and white boxes and
stripes from my Add/Remove programs list with the XP OS from Control Panel.
I downloaded the MyUninstaller utility but do not understand how this utility
can resolve our problems. Thanks for any instruction you can provide.

Darryl

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Darryl,

MyUninstaller does not solve this problem. It's only an alternate to the
Add/Remove Programs applet. However, you may use MyUninstaller to identify
which application is supposed to appear in place of the huge Black/White
space. IIRC, MyUninstaller lists the entries in the same order as the
Add/Remove Programs applet.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Ramesh,
I am having the exact symptons described by George. I also do not have
autocad and the links for Kelly do not apply. I do not wish to uninstall
any
programs at this time, I only want to remove the black and white boxes and
stripes from my Add/Remove programs list with the XP OS from Control Panel.
I downloaded the MyUninstaller utility but do not understand how this
utility
can resolve our problems. Thanks for any instruction you can provide.

Darryl