You’ll need to restart your computer and then open up the list of programs in Control Panel to see the changes. MSI package, which might be the case in corporate environments, you also should check this registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products Lastly, if the program was installed via a. Again, just right-click on the entry and choose Delete to remove it. You’ll also find a bunch of entries for Microsoft Office, if you have the 32-bit version installed. Here, for example, you will find all the entries for Java, if you have that installed. Now you might be wondering why all the programs you have listed under Programs and Features are not showing up under this registry key? The reason is because you might have 32-bit programs installed on a 64-bit version of Windows.įor all of these programs, you need to navigate to the following registry key where you will probably find a lot more entries: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ In the above example, you can see one of them is for a program called VMware Tools.įind the program that is stuck in your program list and then right-click on it in the left-hand menu and choose Delete.
You can easily identify the programs with the long identifier by just clicking on it and looking for DisplayName at the right. You’ll see quite a few entries listed, some of which have friendly names and some that have a really long identifier. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall Now navigate to the following registry key and expand it. To open the registry, click on Start and type in regedit. It requires some registry editing, so be sure to make a backup of your registry first in case you mess something up. If this is true, one would have to chose between CCleaner and a program such as 360 TS, even though the latter is an anti-virus program in the first place.Luckily, there is an easy way to manually remove these stuck entries from the list. The technician who re-installed Win 7 said that one should not mix programs aimed at cleaning, optimizing and repairing the registry. I tried to restore different older registry configurations and also restored the whole Win 7 system to an earlier date. It would not shut down or start up properly, some programs did not respond as they should, and all the other signs of the operating system breaking down appeared, preventing me from working normally. After that, my Win 7 (64 bit) computer started to degrade. Because 360 TS does not have a registry cleaner - Qihoo is apparently planning to add it as a tool - I followed up by running the registry cleaner included in CCleaner. To respond to the first answer I received:Įverything seemed fine after I installed 360 TS and then did the so-called "Full Check" and "Repair" operations the program offers.
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