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."

Comments

Re:Bullshit

[GizmoToy]

Just because your copy works doesn't mean there isn't a problem. At least a few others are complaining of the same problem, so there seems to be some merit to the claim.

Solution

[monoqlith]

I too have encountered this problem, and have also found a solution.

1. Erase your primary hard drive.
2. Install a different operating system.

This will allow you to uninstall all of your programs.

There's an open source patch for this ...

[c1ay]

here...

Re:Technical support

[Stu101]

Call Microsoft, and £200 later maybe get a solution , if you get a decent tech?

hmm

[majortom1981]

I am confused. My vista machine is fully patched and I have no problems uninstalling anything.