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Windows Forum / Windows Me / System Tools / May 2005THERE IS NOTHING IN THE ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS
WHEN I WENT TO THE ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS IN THE CONTROLL PANEL THERE WERE NO PROGRAMS LISTED. HOW DO I GET THEM BACK? ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS? ALSO I AM EXPERIECING FREEZE UPS AND WHEN I DO A CONTROL ALT DELETE, IT SAYS THAT THE EXPLORER IS NOT RESPONDING. THANKS For details of one possible cause of your problem see MS KB 240348 - "All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs Tool" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240348) where the problem can be caused by one of the entries either having a display name or keyname longer than 63 characters. Whilst Win Me isn't mentioned in KB240348 it does apply to Win Me.  SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com > WHEN I WENT TO THE ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS IN THE CONTROLL PANEL THERE > WERE NO PROGRAMS LISTED. HOW DO I GET THEM BACK? ANYONE HAVE ANY [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > THANKS Thanks I read the post about that and checked. no names even that close to 63 characters. Steve > For details of one possible cause of your problem see MS KB 240348 - "All > Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs Tool" [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > THANKS Please do not post in capitals. They are hard to read and you may get ignored. All Installed Programs May Not Be Displayed in the Add/Remove Programs Tool http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240348 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.systemtools, "STEVESTEIN" >WHEN I WENT TO THE ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS IN THE CONTROLL PANEL THERE WERE NO >PROGRAMS LISTED. HOW DO I GET THEM BACK? ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS? If you are familiar with regedit, collapse everything so all you see in the left pane is my computer with a + to the left of it. Click file > export, under export range be sure all is selected, give it a filename (I use the date ex. 050405) and location to save it to. Double click the attached zip file to extract the contents then double click on the extracted varldid.Reg file, click yes, you're done. >WHEN I WENT TO THE ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS IN THE CONTROLL PANEL THERE WERE NO >PROGRAMS LISTED. HOW DO I GET THEM BACK? ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >THANKS -- Keyboard not detected Press F1 to continue What on earth is the connection between the .reg file you posted and missing Add/Remove entries? (Not that it matters to the OP, as he is posting from the web interface and won't see your attachment) ...Alan SignatureAlan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.windowsme.systemtools, TheRealFastlane <fastlane@viawest.net> wrote: >If you are familiar with regedit, collapse everything so all you see >in the left pane is my computer with a + to the left of it. Click [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >-- Keyboard not detected > Press F1 to continue I misunderheard him, thanks for pointing that out. For no known reason I thought he was saying the windows setup/installed programs window was blank, which is what the attachment would/should restore. After looking at my copy I see the entries are now in 8.3 format. Do you know if it will function correctly with the entries in 8.3 instead of lfn ? >What on earth is the connection between the .reg file you posted and >missing Add/Remove entries? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >...Alan -- Keyboard not detected Press F1 to continue You are replying to an ancient post (to me, anyway, as I only keep the last 10 days in Agent) Please post full details if you need a response. ...Alan SignatureAlan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.windowsme.systemtools, TheRealFastlane <fastlane@viawest.net> wrote: >I misunderheard him, thanks for pointing that out. >For no known reason I thought he was saying the windows [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >>...Alan PK .;c*ª! Ð VarLDID.reg”ÝnÚ0†Ï‘¸‡Œ+ uí¤ DŽ[¢a;J2¢ªßTE౨!FŽÙÖ ìÚÆMb¯;µ ¿Ïë 9Á÷8Œ²ùx4 =.>ᇧ%CÁò‰hQ )»Ëò Á@ʵøª /ëøÑ :HÉkµâ²)E )W‡=¬ ¹ £ðËx4™Ý¼ŸN' 'è@œ°û$øíOÎã¾ —b+‹wWV¼Ñ“3û"¿ „ÓôBÌÜÀâ!ÆIva¯†,b„0jˆ~1wg %Ìt›»Ózìítpl ÍpB a=À«—5W þ¹¯„äRóC{7qþç±)¥öííJQ×|Úâåå¯Bnt„»P_wc©FqF06„£åŠp®Êz«Á¡öuÔÕÔvöìs¶dÌ;¨Jˆçãæ%oMÝ<ÿbÌ#²<h^Åw§iÛÅÄÕ¡y}ã;~ö\[0Ò¾|LµçÚÕ›´ey½=½•#7lÜM²]È©»! ®óßá¾) /®Šµ]M/Ôò¶Š01„k‹â{É=R<_l¾e“¬Ûáµq¼Œü°ßWåºøûÚÃBœ½‘ä;Uݯሾ)óUë5N'~<úPK .;c*ª! Ð ¶ VarLDID.regPK 9 ù I had the same problem some time ago and after talking to many people the best way to fix it was to totally reformat the computer. I had accidentally removed them all by clicking on the wrong thing while using a program called win patrol. Even reinstalling windows this didnt work, you need to do a reformat. :( > WHEN I WENT TO THE ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS IN THE CONTROLL PANEL THERE WERE NO > PROGRAMS LISTED. HOW DO I GET THEM BACK? ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > THANKS |
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