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by couthouse

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Some programs in the "Add/Remove Programs" window in the Control Panel don't have the "remove" button. I'm getting a "low disk space" warning and need to remove some of these rarely used programs. Any suggestions?

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by thumbsup2

If only "some" programs do not have the remove button, chances are that you've removed something out of sequence (updates, etc...) and it has left an entry behind in the registry which causes it to be left listed on add/remove programs, but the program is already gone. Sometimes it's even possible that the program's "uninstall" function has been deleted.

You can run a couple of different things to help remove these items from add/remove programs listing, but that won't help clear up enough disk space to make the warnings go away.

Can you tell us your system specs? Maybe there is something else that can be done to help. What operating system and version? How big is the HDD in question?

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