Hiding a program in “add remove programs”

This is just a rehash of an old post I made here

Disclaimer:
!! ALWAYS EDIT THE REGISTRY AT YOUR OWN RISK; BACKUP ANY KEYS YOU PLAN TO EDIT IN CASE SOMETHING GOES WRONG !!
!! I am not responsible for any damage caused by incorrect registry entries. !!

Okay, now on with it (This works on Windows9x through to XP, not sure about Vista because I haven't tried it)...

Open the Registry Editor
Start -> Run -> regedit
and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall

Find the entry for the program you want to hide. The value of the string DisplayName will be what you see in Add/Remove Programs.
You can either change the DisplayName value to say something different, or you can rename DisplayName to quietDisplayName and make that entry invisible to Add/Remove Programs.

Make your change, refresh the registry (F5), then reopen Add/Remove Programs.
The entry should now be changed or not shown depending on what you did.
To change it back, just reverse the procedure.
 
Sweet, Thanks dude

Although changing the name to “QuietDisplayName” didn’t work, leaving the string blank did.

Now the network spy cant remove firefox anymore.








munkyeetr said:
This is just a rehash of an old post I made here

Disclaimer:
!! ALWAYS EDIT THE REGISTRY AT YOUR OWN RISK; BACKUP ANY KEYS YOU PLAN TO EDIT IN CASE SOMETHING GOES WRONG !!
!! I am not responsible for any damage caused by incorrect registry entries. !!

Okay, now on with it (This works on Windows9x through to XP, not sure about Vista because I haven't tried it)...

Open the Registry Editor
Start -> Run -> regedit
and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall

Find the entry for the program you want to hide. The value of the string DisplayName will be what you see in Add/Remove Programs.
You can either change the DisplayName value to say something different, or you can rename DisplayName to quietDisplayName and make that entry invisible to Add/Remove Programs.

Make your change, refresh the registry (F5), then reopen Add/Remove Programs.
The entry should now be changed or not shown depending on what you did.
To change it back, just reverse the procedure.
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Don't change the value of DisplayName to QuietDisplayName, you actually rename DisplayName to quietDisplayName. You can keep the value as it was, so that you know exactly what that entry is. If you make it blank, there may still be a blank entry in Add/Remove (I'm not sure)
 
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