>While the topic of the add/remove programs has surfaced, may I say I find that utility to be one of the crappiest UIs of all.
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>It launches and expects nay DEMANDS that I wait while it reads the entire registry, when I already know I want to remove a product named "XYZ".
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>To make matters worse, on a machine with lots of software (or on a slow machine) that takes darn near forever.
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>It just makes me believe that certain utilities are left to the lesser experienced programmers.

You stopped too soon as far as I'm concerned.
The buttons available are highly unintuitive too, in my opinion.



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>>You're welcome.
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>>>Thanks Sergey, that did the trick.
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>>>>Try MyUninstaller from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html
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>>>>>I've been working on creating an installation to create a Windows Service and ran a few unsuccessful installs. Now when I try to remove them from the Add/Remove Programs applet in Control Panel, the remove does not work. Is there a way for me to get rid of this by fiddling with the registry or something?