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by mike.peck

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I am in the process of setting up a new XP (SP2 fully patched) PC. I have installed a number of programs (ie Office 2000, Autocad 2002, Google Toolbar, and a number of others). When I open the Add or Remove Programs window in Control Panel and sort by name only 2 programs are shown. If I sort by frequency of use I see them all. Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
Thanks,
Mike

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by g...

I'd say you have some key missing in the registery. Windows keeps those list in the registery and some programs like bad adware/spyware remove those.

It's not a "real" problem for the PC but if you want to you could recreate the list by reentering the keys in your registery.

Eventually check your spyware/adawre progs to see
if they didn't do it and eventually put those in quarantine.

by mike.peck

The problem was with Autocad. The icon size in the registry was -1. I changed it to 1 and the problem was solved.
Thanks

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