Change/Remove Buttons Not Available in Add/Remove Programs

August 8, 2008

There are a number of programs listed in the Add or Remove Programs

menu in Control Panel that don't have a Change or Remove button.

Probably more than half of the listed programs are missing the

button(s). These are all active programs, and many do not have a

remove option in the Start/All Programs either. One that I want to

remove right now is the Apple Safari browser for Windows. I have

Googled for help with this, and the only thing I have seen is to

uninstall it in Add or Remove Programs, which is exactly what I can't

do.

How can I delete these programs and/or get the Remove button back in

Add or Remove Programs?

Using Windows XP Pro SP3.

August 8, 2008

Re: Change/Remove Buttons Not Available in Add/Remove Programs

Try here:

Some applications in Add/Remove Programs list are missing Change and

Remove buttons:

http://www.winxptutor.com/arpbuttons.htm

....Alan

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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer

http://dts-l.com/index.htm

On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:10:40 -0700, in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, RAH <w6ccd@k7yca.org> wrote:

>There are a number of programs listed in the Add or Remove Programs

>menu in Control Panel that don't have a Change or Remove button.

>Probably more than half of the listed programs are missing the

>button(s). These are all active programs, and many do not have a

>remove option in the Start/All Programs either. One that I want to

>remove right now is the Apple Safari browser for Windows. I have

>Googled for help with this, and the only thing I have seen is to

>uninstall it in Add or Remove Programs, which is exactly what I can't

>do.

>

>How can I delete these programs and/or get the Remove button back in

>Add or Remove Programs?

>

>Using Windows XP Pro SP3.

August 8, 2008

Re: Change/Remove Buttons Not Available in Add/Remove Programs

Thanks. I tried to do that, but there are only a handful of programs

and a few KB's listed. I then did a search on the string, "NoRemove"

and came up with a lot of programs, but nowhere near what I have

installed. Almost all of them were set to NoRemove 1.

There is nothing about Apple or Safari in the uninstall folder. I did

a search for "Safari", but only found a few entries such as program

name, etc. Apple obviously doesn't want you to remove it once you

have it installed.

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:27:37 +1000, Alan Edwards

<edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote:

>Try here:

>Some applications in Add/Remove Programs list are missing Change and

>Remove buttons:

>http://www.winxptutor.com/arpbuttons.htm

>

>...Alan

August 9, 2008

Re: Change/Remove Buttons Not Available in Add/Remove Programs

for some programs I have found that when you click on them it then shows another window the the uninstall option.

mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com

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