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Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista?

Posted by kdawson on from the hardly-a-feature dept.

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."

6 of 469 comments (clear)

  1. I'm not experiencing this at all... by Iphtashu+Fitz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mainly because I refuse to install/use Vista.

  2. I found a better upgrade to XP... by forgoil · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...bought myself a MacBook and it runs OS X beautifully. I used to be a Microsoft fanboy, Vista turned me into an Apple fanboy instead (Linux in turn turned me into a Microsoft one, and before that it was the Amiga, hmm, fickle is the love for OSes).

    John

  3. Doesn't matter by saibot834 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Doesn't matter. You'll have to re-install windows from time to time, anyway. Uninstalling programs works only via uninstalling Vista ;)

  4. Re:Bullshit by glimmy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your world only contains failure rates of 0% and 100%, huh? If our current president has taught us anything... yes
  5. Re:FUD Article by MarkVVV · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here goes my karma.

    Well, sir, go **** yourself. I've no yahoo crap installed on my machine, yet dozens of programs i installed since i made the switch from XP x64 to Vista x64 magically disappeared from the Programs control panel applet. This isn't FUD, it's a bug. You happen to know that code doesn't come out of people arses, right? It's written by people, who sometimes (more than often with MS software) make mistakes, which result in BUGS. Thanks God i use windows mostly for gaming, that's why i have debian installed to get work done. And know that i bought myself a Wii, i think it's time to delete this NTFS partition all together.

    MSF

  6. No problems here by lilfields · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sorry to interrupt the anti-Microsoft circle jerk, but my Windows Vista (64-bit Ultimate) does not have this problem. While I understand some people may have this problem, the Original Post makes it sound as if this has occurred on every single copy of Windows Vista that has ran the latest update; which as you can tell is not the case. Why does a minority problem even get Slashdotted? Because it's about Microsoft or because it's a slow Sunday? Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux.