You’ll also find a bunch of entries for Microsoft Office, if you have the 32-bit version installed. Here, for example, you will find all the entries for Java, if you have that installed. Now you might be wondering why all the programs you have listed under Programs and Features are not showing up under this registry key? The reason is because you might have 32-bit programs installed on a 64-bit version of Windows.įor all of these programs, you need to navigate to the following registry key where you will probably find a lot more entries: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ In the above example, you can see one of them is for a program called VMware Tools.įind the program that is stuck in your program list and then right-click on it in the left-hand menu and choose Delete. You can easily identify the programs with the long identifier by just clicking on it and looking for DisplayName at the right. You’ll see quite a few entries listed, some of which have friendly names and some that have a really long identifier. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
Now navigate to the following registry key and expand it.
To open the registry, click on Start and type in regedit. It requires some registry editing, so be sure to make a backup of your registry first in case you mess something up. Luckily, there is an easy way to manually remove these stuck entries from the list.
