I have Vista Home Premium on my laptop and all of a sudden (well, for about a
month) I cannot get the 'Uninstall a Program' to even come up when I click on
it. I need to uninstall quite a few programs and it will not even display. I
have tried system restore and that didn't work. I don't know why it's not
working but is there a way I can restore it back? A registry change or do I
need to run 'repair' from the Vista CD? The only problem is that my laptop
only came with an upgrade disk. I don't know if that will work but someone
told me it would be fine. I appreciate all help. I have already tried going
to the registry 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ don't load' but I don't
have the 'don't load' in my registry.
Thanks again!
Dave

Either your programs didn't come with an uninstaller, or Vista has lost track
of these files and you need an uninstaller program to fully uninstall these
programs. I like the program Smarty Uninstaller, available at the following
link (free trial period):

http://www.winnertweak.com/uninstaller/

You run the Smarty UI scan, select the program you wish to uninstall, then
select Uninstall. When this process is done, select for Smarty UI to
complete the uninstallation removing any remnants of the program from your
system.

"David" wrote:

> I have Vista Home Premium on my laptop and all of a sudden (well, for about a
> month) I cannot get the 'Uninstall a Program' to even come up when I click on
> it. I need to uninstall quite a few programs and it will not even display. I
> have tried system restore and that didn't work. I don't know why it's not
> working but is there a way I can restore it back? A registry change or do I
> need to run 'repair' from the Vista CD? The only problem is that my laptop
> only came with an upgrade disk. I don't know if that will work but someone
> told me it would be fine. I appreciate all help. I have already tried going
> to the registry 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ don't load' but I don't
> have the 'don't load' in my registry.
> Thanks again!
> Dave