Re: Win XP cannot uninstall any program

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try this Jeff:



Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT. This starts the Registry Editor. Navigate
to: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall
\<Program Name>

<Program Name> here is Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - Taken as an example

In the right-pane, do the following: 

Double-click NoRemove (REG_DWORD) and set it to 0
Double-click NoModify   (REG_DWORD) and set it to 0

If NoRemove is set to 1, the Remove button will be unavailable
If NoModify    is set to 1, the Change button will be unavailable



Shannon O'Donnell





-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:08 AM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: [PCTECH] Win XP cannot uninstall any program

All,

One of our sales reps left to take another job and, as is normal, I clean up
their laptop software-wise before using it elsewhere.

On this laptop I can't uninstall anything.  The Add/Remove programs shows
the complete list of installed programs, but there are no Remove or Change
buttons to click on for anything.  I have signed on as 2 different users,
including Administrator, with the same results.

A virus scan shows nothing, Ad-aware and Spybot have both been run.

If I look in the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall, it's
completely empty. 

Anyone seen this before?

Thanks.