Tweakui: No Add/remove programs entry

In the old Tweakui there used to be an Add/remove option to get rid of program entries that 'Add/remove Programs' still had in it even though they were already uninstalled. This doesn't seem to exist anymore with the Power Toys Tweakui for Xp. Any idea how to remove these leftover entries?

Thx,

 

Here are a couple of MS-MVP replies to that question I found with a groups.google.com search:

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From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: Tweakui for XP
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Date: 2002-12-21 18:16:32 PST

You can remove entries in Add/Remove via the Registry. Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Each subkey represents an app or component that is installed. Locate the correct subkey, right click it and select Delete. You may want to choose Export first, to create a backup, just in case you choose the
wrong one.

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"johnf" <john f@bigpond.net.a> wrote in message
news:au7N9.6079$Fi2.13108@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Tweakui for XP seems to be missing several of the tweaks which were
> available in the older one.
> I have several entries in Add/Remove programs which are now "dead links" and
> would like to remove them from the list, but that tweak is not available
> (AFAIK).
> Does anyone know how to do this by an alternative method or is it possible
> to run both the old & new Tweakui's side by side in XP?
> That may cause a Control Panel problem, as I already have the XP Tweakui
> showing there (courtesy of a kellys-korner tweak, from memory).
>

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From: Kelly (kelly@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: Add/Remove Using TweakUI
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Date: 2002-11-16 21:02:05 PST

Tom,

It doesn't always work this way for all programs and users. You have
just been fortunate. That is when the manual edit comes into play:

Removing Invalid Entries in the Add/Remove Programs Tool
HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

You may have to contact the manufacturer of the program that you want to
remove if you need to clean up the disk and registry entries. The
procedure described above does not remove all the files and registry
entries used by the program; it removes only the reference in the
Add/Remove Programs tool.

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All the Best,
Kelly

MS-MVP Win98/XP-Shell/User [AE-Windows XP]
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp abc.htm


"Tom Lake" <tlake@northnet.org> wrote in message
news:u4tGXebjCHA.2772@tkmsftngp10...
> > I have downloaded and installed the Windows XP version of
> > TweakUI, expecting to find a way to remove "false "
> > (previously removed) listings from Control
> > Panel|Add/Remove. That was always available in earlier
> > versions of TweakUI. I can't find anything about
> > Add/Remove in the Windows XP version of TweakUI. Am I
> > missing something, or will I have to edit the registry to
> > get rid of these false listings?
>
> When I try to use XP's Control Panel Add/Remove to delete something that has
> been manually deleted, I get a message asking if I want to remove the entry
> from the Add/Remove list. I don't need ANY version of TweakUI.
>
> Tom Lake

 

Instead of thrashing through stuff the hard way, just install TweakUI from the original Win95 powertoys.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/

 

Go get JV16 (www.jv16.org), install it. Read the instructions and comply. It will find all the files that you can remove from the registry for you. Unless i know i have removed the software, i only remove those marked as "Does not exist ".

This works good for me. If the program is in the Add/Remove Programs and i know i have removed those folders\files, I just run JV16.

It has other functions also and best of all, its FREE.

 

I have JV16, but forgot it had the option. Used it to do the job. Thanks!

 

In Tweak UI there are left and right arrows at the top. Right arrow over to add and remove.