{"id":140,"date":"2005-06-08T20:08:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=140"},"modified":"2005-06-08T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T23:11:16","slug":"lovely-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Lovely gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>arlier today, a colleague ended up with a giant blank space in the listbox of the ‘Add and Remove Software’ Applet under Windows XP. Something broke during the install of an application.\n<\/p>\n

There’s an easy solution to this problem. It requires a little bit brainwork though, but if you managed to get to this blog, you’re qualified.\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Check the applet. Memorize the application before and after the white space<\/li>\n
  2. Open up Regedit<\/li>\n
  3. Navigate to the uninstall section of Microsoft\/Windows\/currentversion under LOCAL MACHINE<\/li>\n
  4. Under that section, installed and shown items will have a displayname and a display icon. Order all the entries mentally.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Remove the offending entry.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I see that the list in the applet can only be sorted on name, size and a couple of dates (frequency use\/date last used): maybe Microsoft should add an extra entry in there that sorts the items on ‘physical position’ reflecting the registry. I mean, think of it from a programmer’s perspective: they loop through the list of entries and after that they sort it. Makes sense to add that extra type of sorting, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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