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Bill McGaughey - 22 Nov 2003 16:23 GMT

I have Windows ME. My Add/Remove option in settings is
empty? Nothing, nada. I need to delete some games , etc
that we have on Computer. Any ideas?

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webpaul - 25 Nov 2003 12:10 GMT

> I have Windows ME. My Add/Remove option in settings is
> empty? Nothing, nada. I need to delete some games , etc
> that we have on Computer. Any ideas?

Go to the games folders and look for something like uninstall.exe

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Alan Edwards - 30 Nov 2003 02:06 GMT

All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs
Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q240/3/48.asp

I have fixed several of these recently for others.
The problem will occur in these two situations:

1. The uninstall keyname for an application is greater than 63
characters.
Solution: Rename the keyname.
e.g. this is invalid
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234]

2. The DisplayName for the key is greater than 63 characters.
Solution: Shorten DisplayName
e.g. this is invalid
"DisplayName"="1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234"

If you need a second opinion, export the key to a text file and email
it to me.

*** Note that the invalid entry that can cause this is not necessarily
connected with the ones missing so you must check all entries.

....Alan

Alan Edwards MS MVP W95/98 Systems

In microsoft.public.windowsme.setup, "Bill McGaughey"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have Windows ME. My Add/Remove option in settings is
>empty? Nothing, nada. I need to delete some games , etc
>that we have on Computer. Any ideas?

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