Add & Remove Programs

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Does anyone know where the add & remove programs gets its information? I
have removed Word Perfect 11, deleted the folders and checked the registry,
but it still shows up on that list taking up 460 megs of disc space. I don't
know how esle to get it gone>>> Any ideas would be helpful.
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Matthew

 

[JS]

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Matthew wrote:
> Does anyone know where the add & remove programs gets its information? I
> have removed Word Perfect 11, deleted the folders and checked the registry,
> but it still shows up on that list taking up 460 megs of disc space. I don't
> know how esle to get it gone>>> Any ideas would be helpful.

Hi Matthew

My add/remove programs data seems to be under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Hope that helps

 

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Matthew wrote:

> Does anyone know where the add & remove programs gets its information? I
> have removed Word Perfect 11, deleted the folders and checked the registry,
> but it still shows up on that list taking up 460 megs of disc space.
> I don't know how esle to get it gone>>> Any ideas would be helpful.
Hi,

The use frequency and size estimate in Add/Remove Programs is just a
major guesswork thing from the OS and what is reported there is not
to be trusted.

The info is saved in a binary value named SlowInfoCache.

More about this value here:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1153091,00.asp



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[Guest]

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Matthew wrote:
> Does anyone know where the add & remove programs gets its information? I
> have removed Word Perfect 11, deleted the folders and checked the registry,
> but it still shows up on that list taking up 460 megs of disc space. I don't
> know how esle to get it gone>>> Any ideas would be helpful.

I had a similar problem and finally found this page from Microsoft. The
utility really cleaned it all and then I manually removed all the files
and folders.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=290301

Eduardo