Unable to remove programs.

When I click on [control panel] - [add/remove programs] I get the following screen:

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Add/Remove Programs

An unexpected error has occurred.

Object doesn't support this property or method res://sp3res.dll/default.hta
Line 82
ok
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I now have no way to remove software unless the program itself has a removal program.
Please help me!
Peter Heberer

 

Hi pheberer
Welcome to the boards! Two links for you. This one and more specifically this one.
Post back and let us know if it helps?

 

Thanks for the quick response. This looks like a project that better wait tell next week to try.

I'll let you know what happens.

My error was not listed. My the exact problem was slightly different. I'm still going to give it a try and see if it fixes it.

Thanks,
Pete H.

 

Hi pheberer
Just bumping this one to let you know we've not forgotten about you. Any progress? Were you able to get us an exact error message?

 

Daizy,

I'm being chicken. I'm trying to get a friend to assist me (false courage).
What I gave as the error is correct. What is on the pages to try for the repair is slightly different.

Thanks!!
Pete H.

 

If Daizy's suggestions do not help, you could also look here
http://www.dbforums.com/t953592.html
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1080702912
(Another reference says that just re-registering Mshtmled.dll per Daizy's second link did the job.)
The first link above suggests one possibility is that you could have malware on your PC. It is smart to run a spyware detector like AdAware or SpybotS&D (getting the latest reference files first) from time to time anyway. I assume you have an antivirus program running on your PC and that you update its virus definitions at least once a week.
AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
SpybotS&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/