- Jul 29, 2014
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Hello,
I just realized that half of the programs that are installed on my Windows 8.1 machine don't appear on the Programs and Features list!
I had a strange error message during the last week: when I was going to attach a PDF file on Gmail, on the Open window, there was a weird error mentioning something about Acrobat not being able to preview the file. Adobe Acrobat was opening normally though, and I could attach the PDFs after clicking OK on the error window.
Unfortunately, I haven't written down the exact error message, and I've tried to uninstall Acrobat some minutes ago, so I can't really reproduce the event to write down the message.
The weirdest part is that all programs are missing, except for Microsoft apps (including Skype), Spotify and Vuze.
Also, on the Creative Cloud app (Adobe's app for installing programs), Adobe Acrobat seems like it's installed, whereas I just uninstalled it and restarted Windows (and now PDFs open with Windows' native app).
One big mistake I may have done is installing a third-party theme with uxstyle. The theme was one of the most popular third-party themes for Windows 8.1 (Simplify) and there were no complaints about things going wrong, but who knows... As soon as I realized that something is going wrong with my registry, I changed the theme to the original one and ran sfc /scannow to recover the original registry files. It didn't solve the problem though.
Please help! I don't really know what to do to rebuild the registry. I hope I don't have to go to some kind of recovery/reset mode.
Thanks!
I just realized that half of the programs that are installed on my Windows 8.1 machine don't appear on the Programs and Features list!
I had a strange error message during the last week: when I was going to attach a PDF file on Gmail, on the Open window, there was a weird error mentioning something about Acrobat not being able to preview the file. Adobe Acrobat was opening normally though, and I could attach the PDFs after clicking OK on the error window.
Unfortunately, I haven't written down the exact error message, and I've tried to uninstall Acrobat some minutes ago, so I can't really reproduce the event to write down the message.
The weirdest part is that all programs are missing, except for Microsoft apps (including Skype), Spotify and Vuze.
Also, on the Creative Cloud app (Adobe's app for installing programs), Adobe Acrobat seems like it's installed, whereas I just uninstalled it and restarted Windows (and now PDFs open with Windows' native app).
One big mistake I may have done is installing a third-party theme with uxstyle. The theme was one of the most popular third-party themes for Windows 8.1 (Simplify) and there were no complaints about things going wrong, but who knows... As soon as I realized that something is going wrong with my registry, I changed the theme to the original one and ran sfc /scannow to recover the original registry files. It didn't solve the problem though.
Please help! I don't really know what to do to rebuild the registry. I hope I don't have to go to some kind of recovery/reset mode.
Thanks!
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