Monday, March 28, 2011

Add/remove programs windows is blank/waiting

I have had problem of Add/remove programs being stuck, in creating list of applications. After searching through microsoft site none of the solutions offered fixed the problem

Finally a solution on tom's hardware had the fix, which is was due to invalid path of java

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/85414-45-remove-programs-program-open

The exact key may be different, but in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Uninstall there should a key for java which has '\\' instead of a single slash. Once this has been changed add/remove dialog opens fine.

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