Problem with Add or Remove Programs list

[Don Madsen]

When AutoCad 2002 is installed ther is a big gap in the listing of programs
in Add or Remover Programs. This gap appears in the alphabetic position
where AutoCad would normally appear. There is no entry in the list for
AutoCad. There are also some other errors in the list. If all AutoCad files
are removed the anomaly disappears.

 

[dev]

/Don Madsen/ said:

When AutoCad 2002 is installed ther is a big gap in the listing of programs
in Add or Remover Programs. This gap appears in the alphabetic position
where AutoCad would normally appear. There is no entry in the list for
AutoCad. There are also some other errors in the list. If all AutoCad files
are removed the anomaly disappears.

A known phenomena. Kelly's link, below, has the fix. Click on "A" and
scroll down to...

Add or Remove - White Space

AutoCad Fix
Autodesk Land Desktop 3 Fix

 

[Kelly]

Thanks, dev.

See line 226 - right hand side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

When AutoCad 2002 is installed ther is a big gap in the listing of programs
in Add or Remover Programs. This gap appears in the alphabetic position
where AutoCad would normally appear. There is no entry in the list for
AutoCad. There are also some other errors in the list. If all AutoCad files
are removed the anomaly disappears.

A bit tedious; this arises when the Display name put in the Uninstall
key concerned is either corrupt, null or much too big. With regedit.exe
look in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

open it, look at the first sub-key then use Down arrow to go down
successive sub-keys, looking at DisplayName in the right pane for the
offending one. When you find it, double click Display Name and enter
something reasonably short and simple

 

[Don Madsen]

A bit tedious; this arises when the Display name put in the Uninstall
key concerned is either corrupt, null or much too big. With regedit.exe
look in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

open it, look at the first sub-key then use Down arrow to go down
successive sub-keys, looking at DisplayName in the right pane for the
offending one. When you find it, double click Display Name and enter
something reasonably short and simple


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THANK YOU. Only one small difference .... the error was in a DisplayIcon
item which had a ",-1" at the end. Removing those 3 characters solved the
problem.

Don