Add or Remove Programs, phantom programs?

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"Morten" <mdavis@hotmail.NOT.com> wrote in message
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>I make copies of the Windows XP partition, for backup. I also have
> partitions which hold personal data. Somehow, the Add/Remove programs
> list now includes programs which were never installed on a particular
> backup copy of Windows XP. The folders and files do not exist in
> Program Files, and an error is produced when trying to remove the
> programs. I am given the option of just deleting them from the list.
>
> I need to know, where on my disk is Add/Remove programs getting its
> list of programs? Could it have to do with System Volume Information
> or some other system data?
>
> There seems to be a leak somewhere between the partitions on my disk
>  
>
> TIA


In the Registry under this key

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

delete the key for the name of the program you wished to be removed from the
Add/Remove list

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William

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"WTC" <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Morten" <mdavis@hotmail.NOT.com> wrote in message

>> ... I am given the option of just deleting them from the list.

> In the Registry under this key
>
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
>
> delete the key for the name of the program you wished to be
> removed from the Add/Remove list

To be clear. I think just deleting them from the list is easier,
but that's not the objective.

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"Morten" <mdavis@hotmail.NOT.com> wrote in message
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> "WTC" <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Morten" <mdavis@hotmail.NOT.com> wrote in message
>
>>> ... I am given the option of just deleting them from the list.
>
>> In the Registry under this key
>>
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
>>
>> delete the key for the name of the program you wished to be
>> removed from the Add/Remove list
>
> To be clear. I think just deleting them from the list is easier,
> but that's not the objective.


Well it gets the information here in the registry.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

--
William