Does anyone know what could be hiding the “uninstall” aka ‘change or remove’ buttons in the Add/Remove programs wizard in settings? On some it’s there, and on others there’s nothing. I’m mystified, unless this is a brand new safety feature triggered by some update.
Nope. Every item I have in my list has a Remove (or Remove/Change) button.
you can fix that problem by uninstalling Windows…
ok, just kidding.
if they don’t appear when your pointer hovers over them, try clicking on the entry in the Add/Remove Software window and it should expand a little and show you the buttons.
That’s the problem. It does, but only for some. I usually uncheck every one of microsoft’s “treat me like a five-year- old!” options, but this one has me stumped.
I think I had something similar happen when I deleted the .EXE files for the program without going through the Windows uninstall. Once the EXEs were gone, Windows couldn’t uninstall it. The program was “gone” but Windows registry still had an entry.
Hmm. I’ve uninstalled and installed two firewalls in recent days, and done the same with MS’s .NET codebase; once using system restore and once (when that didn’t go cleanly) with a manual uninstall and a fresh install over top. In all that excitement, my registry might have forgotten which entries belonged to what.
how did you fix this problem?