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

Absolutely!!

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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?