Puzzle on the Add or Remove Programs Page

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I want to manually remove a program item which is already uninstalled
from the Currently installed programs list in the Add or Remove Programs
page of my WinXP Pro SP2itially try to remove it. I opened the registry,
deleted the appropiated entry, follow strictly the instruction from MS
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314481). The program item still
appeared in the Add/Remove Programs page without the change/remove
button. How come this happened? I rebooted my PC still no luck. I
rechecked the registry the item i want to remove was NOT here. How could
i remove this nonexist item? I did a test. I deleted the WHOLE branch of
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall]
from my registry. I expected the Add or Remove Programs page should be
empty. But NOT all the installed program items were still displayed as
before the only changes were 1)the no further action on doubleclick;
2)no change/remove button; 3)the icons.

Will please someone shade light on me for solving this puzzle thank you!!
 
There are other keys. Some things exist in two places.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products

And the above get built here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Management\ARPCache
 
Tweak (part of XP power toys) provides capability to remove listing of
programs previously removed.
 
Tweak (part of XP power toys) provides capability to remove listing of
programs previously removed.
Click to expand...

I tried the TweakUI but could find this function on the lefthand side
pulldown menu. Will you please give me the poiter, thank you!!
 
Tweakui ver 1.00 (from 95 power toys) is the one that edits Add/Remove.

Not that this will help you as it does what you have done manually. I already told you the answer.
 
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