MS Encarta 10 years later
Saturday, August 14th, 2010I am throwing away old disks, but before I do I see if they are worth keeping. I just installed MS Encarta 2000, but it would not run. When I went to the control panel to remove it this is what I saw:
When I start up the Add/Remove Programs applet, it shows a number of programs, then has a huge amount of empty space between two entries (we’re talking dozens of page down keystrokes to find the next one), then some more entries, and another huge gap.
How to undelete a program if it is not listed in control panel and the folder does not have a file called uninstall.exe?
I searched the Internet and found this solution:
here is the actual location in the registery that helped me [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{5783F2D7-0101-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}] the key was called “DisplayIcon”
When I went down this folder I found, lo and behold, MS Encarta and MS Reference (or whatever it was called) and one of the keys was called ‘Undelete file’ (or something of the sort). I ran both undeletes and the gap in Add/Remove Programs was gone!
The page that helped me.