Add/Remove programs problem in Windows 2000
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Whenever I start the Add/Remove programs control panel ‘applet’ in the Windows 2000 Professional control panel, I get the error message:
Error on line 325
Uninitialised object
res:\\appwiz.cpl/listctrl.htc
And after clicking Ok I get the view that you’d normally get, but with the text “There are no programs installed on this computer”. Yet if I scroll down then the usual program listing are shown, which I can select and view as normal. Except that the ‘Change’ ands ‘Remove’ buttons are disabled for every entry. Thus I can no longer uninstall or modify software on my machine. I have re-run the Windows 2000 Professional installation in repair mode, and everything went ok, yet it has made no difference. I have had a look through the Microsoft Knowledge Base for topics related to Windows 2000 and even the Windows Installer service, but found nothing relevant to my problem. Has anybody else ever experienced this problem, and if so, how did you solve it? I don't really use this applet very often, but I can remember it worked perfectly about a week ago. Since then I installed Adobe Acrobat 5.0, but I don't remember installing or uninstalling anything else. Now I need to modify my Microsoft Office 2000 installation to install PowerPoint, but I can’t click on the ‘Change’ button as it is disabled. And before you ask, I can’t upgrade from the CD as the installer package helpfully tells me to use the add-remove programs applet! I have tried manually running the correct msi file on the CD, but it launches in “new-installation” mode. I think that almost certainly means there has been a corruption of settings somewhere that has something to do with the installer service, but where and how I don't know. Cheers, James Millson
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Whenever I start the Add/Remove programs control panel ‘applet’ in the Windows 2000 Professional control panel, I get the error message:
Error on line 325
Uninitialised object
res:\\appwiz.cpl/listctrl.htc
And after clicking Ok I get the view that you’d normally get, but with the text “There are no programs installed on this computer”. Yet if I scroll down then the usual program listing are shown, which I can select and view as normal. Except that the ‘Change’ ands ‘Remove’ buttons are disabled for every entry. Thus I can no longer uninstall or modify software on my machine. I have re-run the Windows 2000 Professional installation in repair mode, and everything went ok, yet it has made no difference. I have had a look through the Microsoft Knowledge Base for topics related to Windows 2000 and even the Windows Installer service, but found nothing relevant to my problem. Has anybody else ever experienced this problem, and if so, how did you solve it? I don't really use this applet very often, but I can remember it worked perfectly about a week ago. Since then I installed Adobe Acrobat 5.0, but I don't remember installing or uninstalling anything else. Now I need to modify my Microsoft Office 2000 installation to install PowerPoint, but I can’t click on the ‘Change’ button as it is disabled. And before you ask, I can’t upgrade from the CD as the installer package helpfully tells me to use the add-remove programs applet! I have tried manually running the correct msi file on the CD, but it launches in “new-installation” mode. I think that almost certainly means there has been a corruption of settings somewhere that has something to do with the installer service, but where and how I don't know. Cheers, James Millson
I have been having a different sort of problem. Whenever I start the ARP control pannel, I get 100% CPU and nothing gets displayed. I have no idea what prompted this, and installing SP2 didn't help. If anyone's seen this behaviour (and fixed it...) please save me the trouble if reinstalling my system. Cheers, -Oz --- Grab WndTabs from http://www.wndtabs.com to make your VC++ experience that much more comfortable...