Alan Zisman wrote to JEAN PARROT

AZ>I think he meant removing items from the Add/Remove list 
AZ>when they no longer have a program to remove... if you'll 
AZ>recall, further back in this thread, there was discussion 
AZ>about removing folders of files added by MS patches or 
AZ>service packs-- if you manually delete the folders, you 
AZ>won't be able to remove the service pack (etc), leaving an 
AZ>orphaned item in the Add/Remove control panel.

AZ>You can get rid of such items using Regedit-- but easier is 
AZ>to use TweakUI. (Lots of other interface tweaking utilities 
AZ>offer such a feature as well).

Note that removing orphaned items from Add/Remove is not available as a 
"Tweak" in TweakUi when using either Win2000 or WinXP.  Instead open 
Control Panel Add/Remove and click on the orphaned item.  It will 
respond back that the program appears to have already been removed and 
will offer to remove the orphaned item from the Control Panel add/remove 
list.

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