Updates of Windows disappeared in Installation of Applications

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I experienced the disappearing of all the records of updates of Windows (XP
home edition) in Installation of Application. Anyway the updates are in the
system because other programs like JV16 Power Tools can read them.
Someone can help me to recover the Windows updates in Installation of
Applications ?
Thank you

Gimid
 
please read Installation of Application as Add/Remove
Thank you
Gimid






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If you are using Windows XP with Service Packs installed, you may need
to check on "Show Updates" at the top of "Add/Remove Programs" Windows.
 
Dear smlunatick
thank you but that was the first thing I checked
Have you other ideas ?

Gimid
 
Yer Robert. I checked on Windows Update and it offers no update after
scanning my computer. The hystory shows all the installed updates. In my
add/remove I find the office 2003 updates and the internet explorer 7 ones
but not the Windows updates. Strange. I hope to receive some suggestion.
Perhaps I cancelled a dll
Thank you
 
1. Enable "Show Hidden Files and Folders" (if necessary):
www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial62.html

2. Open Windows Explorer to C:\Windows <=this folder.

3a. Are any of these (hidden) subfolders found? => $NtUninstallKB942763$;
$NtUninstallKB941569$; $NtUninstallKB941568$

3b. Are any similarly named (e.g., $NtUninstallKBnnnnnn$) subfolders found?
 
In C:\Windows I found only the folder $NtUninstallKB820291$ in blue colour.
I found moreover many files like KBnnnnnn.log
Thank you for your help. Have you an idea of what happened ?

Gimid
 
You or someone else apparently deleted those folders. They contained the
information necessary to uninstall the associated update. Since that
information is no longer present, you cannot unintll the updates so the
updates are no longer listed in Add/Remove Programs.
 
Dear Pa Bear
so you mean that I need to re load Windows XP and then all the updates or
there is another more simple solution ?
I tried to go back with the restore a previous configuration function but
nothing happened. Perhaps it happened before the last restoring available
point.
Thank you in any case
 
System Restore will not magically restore files deleted from the machine.

If you want those updates to appear in Add/Remove Programs again so that
they're again uninstallable, you will have to format & reinstall Windows
then reinstall all the updates. (Personally, I'd wait until WinXP SP3 is
released later this year to do this, when you'll only need to install SP3
and any critical updates released afterwards.)
 
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