[windows_errors] [What_Error_Messages_Really_Mean_WinNT] C:\Program Folder Causes Add/Remove Program to Fail:
- From: "albertj809" <albertj809@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: What_Error_Messages_Really_Mean_WinNT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 04:55:57 -0000
Creating C:\Program Folder Causes Add/Remove Program to Fail:
This information is for,Windows NT Workstation 4.0
You may get symptoms like this.
After you create a folder called C:\Program, if you then go to
Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, and select an
installed program to remove or update, you get the following error
message.
An error occurred while trying to remove "program_name"
Uninstallation has been cancelled.
If you rename the folder called Program to, for example, Program2,
you see the following message:
This change may impact one or more registered programs. Do you want
to continue?
Cause:
Look in the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal
l
\...
any programs whose uninstall string value starts with C:\Progra~1
or "C:\Program Files\..." will fail to be removed if a C:\Program
folder exists.
These examples will also fail:
UninstallString:reg_sz:c:\Program Files\My_program\setup setup
UninstallString:reg_sz:"c:\Program Files\My_program\setup" setup
UninstallString:reg_sz:c:\Progra~1\My_program\setup setup
....................................................................
To resolve this problem:
Perform the following steps to remove the desired application.
Rename the C:\Program folder.
Click the Start button, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and
then double-click Add/Remove Programs.
Click the application you want to remove, and then click Remove.
Then click OK.
Rename the folder in step 1 back to its original name.
Last Reviewed: 8/9/2001
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