Add or Remove Programs

External Since: May 14, 2007 Posts: 164

29/Sep/2008 9:55

The Add or Remove Programs function (Windows XP Home & SP3) does not
function properly:

1. It does not show last date used.

2. There are mysterious (to me) programs listed. When I go to see more
about such a program, I am offered only the option to delete the program. I
don't even know what the program is.

3. How often I use a program, and when I last used the program, are
totally wrong. There is a program that I used about two hours ago -- yet the
function states that I use the program only occasionally and that I last
used it on June 6th of this year.

Is there a way to make the function work properly? If so, how would it be
done?

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Barry Karas

External Since: Jul 04, 2006 Posts: 3410

1 & 3 are guestimates not to be relied on, as is any size reported
2 depends on the information provided by the program that has been
installed, and since you installed it, you should know what you installed.
All the above rely on details supplied by the program, and since MS has no
input on these, it depends on how the program was implimented/written as to
what is shown

The Add/Remove dialogue is just that, its not a process designed to give
detail of the program.

"Barry Karas" <barrykaras1234.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> 29/Sep/2008 9:55
>
> The Add or Remove Programs function (Windows XP Home & SP3) does not
> function properly:
>
> 1. It does not show last date used.
>
> 2. There are mysterious (to me) programs listed. When I go to see more
> about such a program, I am offered only the option to delete the program.
> I don't even know what the program is.
>
> 3. How often I use a program, and when I last used the program, are
> totally wrong. There is a program that I used about two hours ago -- yet
> the function states that I use the program only occasionally and that I
> last used it on June 6th of this year.
>
> Is there a way to make the function work properly? If so, how would it be
> done?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Barry Karas
>
>
>
>