Unable to Change/Remove Programs in Add/Remove Programs List

Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Registry Hacks |

Fix for when you are unable to remove or change a program listed under Add/Remove Programs.

Click Start–>Run and type REGEDIT. This starts the Registry Editor. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall
\ProgramName

In the right-pane, do the following:

Double-click NoRemove (REG_DWORD) and set it to 0
Double-click NoModify (REG_DWORD) and set it to 0

If NoRemove is set to 1, the Remove button will be unavailable

If NoModify is set to 1, the Change button will be unavailable

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