I have a bunch of programs that I need to delete. But when I go into
"Add and Remove" and click on the program the remove button does not
come up. So I can't delete it. Anybody know what the problem is and how
to fix it?

I assume the program itself shows in your list. How about change? Does
that button show?

http://add-remove-program.qarchive.org/


based on what i saw when i looked it up... looked pretty complicated.
this site is supposed to have a solution for it...

or just type: add or remove; cant uninstall a program - type in
google and it will take you to same site or list of them

You can also delete programs from yer registry!

whispertoascream,

Scroll down, the Remove button is just off the screen.

Hey guys thanks all for your help. But no there is no buttons that show
up. The only thing that it will allow me to remove is Yahoo. And I sorta
want to keep that...lol. But there is a bunch of crap that I do not need
in there.

It would be nice if we could see what was going on, on your screen. Can
you take screenshots?

Its done like this: When you want to take the shot, hit Cntrl-PrntScr,
and then go into the Paint program, "File"->"New" then Cntrl-V.

You could email those privately, off-JSH, to people who want to help.

OK, is there anybody here willing to help me?...lol.

I've looked at whisper's photos, and I'm stuck. The only safe thing I
can think to try would be a registry cleaner or similar utility - can
anyone recommend any from personal experience?

I turned up this one by googling ' freeware "registry cleaner" '

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/RegSeeker/1035382760/1

I have already downloaded and id a registry cleaning. I downloaded
Abexo. It seemed to do a good job. Did not fix my Add and Remove
problem. But it got rid of a bunch of junk.

First try to reinstall Windows Installer. Download from microsofts site
if needed at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en

If that dont work try this, but be careful, you can mess stuff up easily
in the registry, and no cleaner will "fix" this due to it being a valid
key under some conditions. EX. Any patches or programs that should not
really be removed. If in doubt, leave it alone! Dont use this to change
the registry where you can uninstall patches etc.. that should not be.
There is a reason some of them are set the way they are, its because it
will crash your system if they are removed.

Don't play around in here, you have been warned. I goof around in it,
but I am willing to reinstall windows and lose everything
on my drive, and have done so many times (I change/delete stuff without
bothering to back it up, and in some cases, saving the key would had
done me no good anyway).

Go to start, run, and type in regedit, click ok.

Once in the registry, (All of these will be in the left pane, you may
have to scroll down in some places) click on "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE", then
click on "SOFWARE", then click on "Microsoft", then click on "Windows",
then click on "CurrentVersion", then click on "Uninstall".

Under this key will be a list of all the programs that windows installer
is aware of. Locate the application your wanting to uninstall and click
that.

On the right hand pane, see if there is a item name listed as "NoRemove"
with the number under the "Data" column as "1"

If there is, select it, then choose File, and export, and save it
anywhere you want, but remember where you put it just in case (changes
or deletions to this key is not going to cause you to crash though).

Right click "NoRemove" and choose "Modify", change the "1" to a "0".

Leave the registry open for now.

See if the button for what you want to uninstall is available. If it is,
close the registry editor, and then uninstall.

If it still is not available, then right click "NoRemove" and choose
"Delete" and tell it yes to the warning (for some reason, sometime just
changing the value will not add the button back, but this is the key
that is controlling what options are available).

At this point there should be nothing preventing the button from not
coming up. If its still not avialable, you got problems elsewhere as
well or some program you have is preventing it.

After the program is removed, you can delete the file you saved, as the
entire structure under the applications name will be removed during the
uninstall. Thats how to get rid of programs listed that are no longer on
the system that someone just deleted the folder off the drive. Just
deleting the entire key will NOT uninstall it, it just will no longer be
listed in add/remove programs.

Hope it helps.

Thank you everybody for all your help. I am not able to add and remove.
I had to do a system restore as I was getting different error messages
and I was so affraid my computer was going to start feezing on me again
like it did before I took it in on Sunday and that is something I did
not want. Everything is working just fine now.

BUT I had to sacrafies my IE7