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Hi!

When I open 'Add and remove programs' menu, is too much white space (140
clicks on the vertical scroll bar) between the last programs started with the
letter A and first program started with the letter B. Thereafter, all normal.
How can I fix this, please?

Thanks in advance.
an
 
Have you tried clicking on 'show updates' and sort by to see if that
corrects the problem?
 
an said:
Hi!

When I open 'Add and remove programs' menu, is too much white space
(140
clicks on the vertical scroll bar) between the last programs started
with the
letter A and first program started with the letter B. Thereafter, all
normal.
How can I fix this, please?
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The Old New Thing : Why does Add or Remove Programs show a large blank
space?
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/05/26/422076.aspx

Often it is an icon listed with a -1, as described in the article.

Do you have AutoCad installed but not listed in Add or Remove Programs?
It causes this symptom too. There is a specific fix for that on Kelly's
page here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_a.htm
 
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an said:
Hi!

When I open 'Add and remove programs' menu, is too much
white space (140 clicks on the vertical scroll bar) between
the last programs started with the letter A and first
program started with the letter B. Thereafter, all normal.
How can I fix this, please?

Thanks in advance.
an
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Try:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266668/en-us#top#top

Add/Remove Programs tool displays installed programs
incorrectly

" The Currently installed programs box may contain only a
single text string, or may display a large blank space before
the program entries. Other display problems may include... "
 
Taken from http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_a.htm

Add or Remove - White Space

AutoCad Fix
Autodesk Land Desktop 3 Fix

This is generally due to the DisplayIcon having a negative number. From here you can
either remove the negative number or remove the last application listed:
Start/Run/Regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{}
 
Point-in-fact :- the "-" sign does not denote a negative number but rather,
specifies that the index of the icon refers to it's numerical name - without this,
the index would refer to it's absolute position in the library.

e.g. 1 :

In the icon library "myicons.dll" -
Icon0 Absolute position = 0 numerical name = 1
Icon1 Absolute position = 1 numerical name = 2
Icon2 Absolute position = 2 numerical name = 3

to specify Icon1 you can use either :
myicons.dll,1
myicons.dll,-2

As they both refer to the same icon in the library. As does;

e.g. 2 :

%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,69
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-151

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
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