Control Panel/Add & Remove Problem

[Jillian]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Hi. We have Windows XP Home Edition, IE 6.0 SP2.

If I go into Control Panel and then into Add and Remove, it seems when I
populate the list of programs installed the list starts alphabetically by "A"
and then goes to "F". Then I have to scroll down to the remaining programs
beginning with "G" and ending at "Z".

This would not be a problem but I only have to scroll because there is a
huge black area that has formed between the F programs until the screen turns
back to listing the remaining programs. The dialogue box starts out all
black and then goes into black and white stripes. Very strange.

I don't know when this happened...when we downloaded SP2? I don't know but
I would really like to get rid of all the black and white in the add and
remove dialogue box.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thank you very much.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Hi Jillian,

Download the fix from line 226 in the right column here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://dts-l.org/


jillian wrote:
> Hi. We have Windows XP Home Edition, IE 6.0 SP2.
>
> If I go into Control Panel and then into Add and Remove,
> it seems when I populate the list of programs installed
> the list starts alphabetically by "A" and then goes to
> "F". Then I have to scroll down to the remaining
> programs beginning with "G" and ending at "Z".
>
> This would not be a problem but I only have to scroll
> because there is a huge black area that has formed
> between the F programs until the screen turns back to
> listing the remaining programs. The dialogue box starts
> out all black and then goes into black and white stripes.
> Very strange.
>
> I don't know when this happened...when we downloaded SP2?
> I don't know but I would really like to get rid of all
> the black and white in the add and remove dialogue box.
>
> Any ideas how to do this?
>
> Thank you very much.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

> Download the fix from line 226 in the right column here:
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
>
I have the IDENTICAL Add/Remove display window problem, right down to the
large black/white region beginning after the "F" entires. I launched Resedit
and went to the strings listed, but the instructions thereafter are very,
very vague about what exactly gets edited. There's no negative numbers in
strings I can see, "removing the last entry" means the last application
listed, the last "F" application, the last string inside a folder? It's not
very clear about what to actually edit out. I know enough to not proceed
further editing anything at this junction.

Any more specific directions would be greatly appreciated and a learning
experience.

Thanks!