Add Remove Program Dialogue

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I'm running Media Center XP with SP2 No programs appear in control panel's
"change or remove box". nothing, no fixes, Kxxxx, no Office, no Adobe
nothing. The sytem will attempt a search forever using all resourses, with
dual CPU's running at 80 to 100% I would rather not reload from scratch
again. Is there an obvious (non user error) or entry missing? Any advice is
appreciated.

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There should be a program that has a very long name in registry.
MVP Alan has a solution:
click start - run - type regedit and press enter
Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
You should see a very long name. (Longer than others) rename it to shorter.
 
AutoCAD is known to cause this problem with add/remove--the entry has a
negative # which adds hundreds of blank lines before the entry.

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