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Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista?
Corson writes "I am surprised that nobody seems to have mentioned this here yet. Possibly after one of the latest updates in Windows Vista, two strange things happened: first, the Uninstall option is no longer available in the Control Panel when you right-click on older programs (most likely, those installed prior to the update in question, because uninstall works fine for recently installed programs — the Uninstall button is also missing on the toolbar at the top); second, some programs are no longer shown on the applications list in Control Panel (e.g., Yahoo Messenger). A Google search returns quite a few hits on this issue (e.g., one, two, three, and four) but everybody seems to be waiting patiently for a sign from Microsoft. But the company seems to have no clue or they would have fixed it already. I am just curious how many of you are experiencing this nuisance."
news for nerds, stuff that matters. The AOL control panel not working in windows vista doesn't qualify as either.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Vista, aka Windows ME II, is strange. I think it's not being adopted more than MS is letting on, at least with existing installed systems. The growth will be pretty much limited to pre-installs on new PCs AFACT.
Another weird thing: everyone and their mother recommended waiting for the first Service Pack before taking the plunge. It was accepted as common knowledge that MS was working furiously on Vista SP1. "A few months", is what I heard early in January. Now here we are 6 months later and not a peep.
Personally, I went out and bought another 2 copies of XP Professional for future use. Vista? No thanks, no way, no how.
SAME WITH ME! I HAVE BOUGHT A DELL LAPTOP WITH VISTA ULTIMATE & REALISED THAT VISTA IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MOST OF THE SOFTWARE APPLICATION EX: EVEN WITH NAV & MACAFEE. SO, I WAS LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION TO FIND HOW TO INSTALL 2 OPERATION SYSTEMS - LIKE I WANT TO INSTALL XP & RUN ALL THE APPLICATION FROM THERE & KEEP VISTA AS A BACKUP! IS IT POSSIBLE & IF IN FUTURE WANT TO REMOVE THE XP & JUST STICK WITH VISTA?
Slightly offtopic, but while we're disclosing weird Windows bugs...
Type (1+1=) into the Windows Vista calculator. It won't work for any other versions of Windows. A recent patch seemed to do something about it, but only in the sense of changing the crash that resulted to an abort or false assertion (which just crashes in a different way).
I am running Vista Home Premium (32bit), I use it primarily for gaming (I do every other possible computing task on my Macbook). I recently installed a program called Akimbo (didn't have an OSX version). Akimbo, against my will, ninja installed the "Macrovision InstallShield Update Manager". The Macrovision "tool" did not have an uninstall icon in the Vista GUI. Pissed off, I uninstalled Akimbo per the Vista GUI, thinking it would get rid of the Macrovision "tool" since it installed it, but the PoS Macrovision program remained, with no icon at all in my Vista Add/Remove. Now that I am done using up the free $25 for Akimbo, I'm going to get rid of Akimbo and hopefully Macrovision... any suggestions? I read above that someone said to run Vista in "Full Admin" mode, I have not tried that yet since I didn't know there was two different admin modes.