When you open Add/Remove Programs applet and click an application entry, you may notice that the Change, Remove (or Change/Remove) buttons may be missing, thus leaving only the application name entry there.


Here is a method to make Windows show the Remove, Change (or the Change/Remove button together) buttons in the listing.

RESOLUTION

•Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT. This starts the Registry Editor. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall
\

•In the right-pane, do the following:

Double-click NoRemove (REG_DWORD) and set it to 0
Double-click NoModify (REG_DWORD) and set it to 0

If NoRemove is set to 1, the Remove button will be unavailable
If NoModify is set to 1, the Change button will be unavailable

Final result is you'll get the Change and Remove buttons back (or, the Change/Remove button together).



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by La Luna edited by MSeng
last modified: 2007-06-10 14:07:43