Add/Remove Programs Out of Date

[JPH]

When I display the Add or Remove Program screen, the date shown for "Last
Used On" is way out of date (sometimes months), and I know that certain
programs have run frequently. Therefore, it also labels many of my programs
as "Used Rarely" when they are, in fact, used frequently. I do not know if
this might cause some problem, and wanted to run it past someone in this
forum. Advice appreciated.

John

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

No, it's not critical - just about every one of mine is wrong, I just ignore
it. I haven't searched it out yet, but they are probably just a few errant
strings in the system registry.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"JPH" <24601@hidden> wrote in message
...
> When I display the Add or Remove Program screen, the date shown for "Last
> Used On" is way out of date (sometimes months), and I know that certain
> programs have run frequently. Therefore, it also labels many of my
programs
> as "Used Rarely" when they are, in fact, used frequently. I do not know
if
> this might cause some problem, and wanted to run it past someone in this
> forum. Advice appreciated.
>
> John
>
>

[Tom Porterfield]

This is common. Other than making the "last used on" and "used" fields in
Add or Remove Programs basically useless because of the unreliability of
the data, it causes no problems.

--
Tom Porterfield
Windows XP / Smart Display MVP
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

"JPH" <24601@hidden> wrote in message
...
> When I display the Add or Remove Program screen, the date shown for
"Last
> Used On" is way out of date (sometimes months), and I know that certain
> programs have run frequently. Therefore, it also labels many of my
programs
> as "Used Rarely" when they are, in fact, used frequently. I do not know
if
> this might cause some problem, and wanted to run it past someone in this
> forum. Advice appreciated.
>
> John
>
>

[taurarian]

I was very interested in this response as my system is
wrong also. Now at least I know I'm not the only one .....


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>No, it's not critical - just about every one of mine is
wrong, I just ignore
>it. I haven't searched it out yet, but they are probably
just a few errant
>strings in the system registry.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"JPH" <24601@hidden> wrote in message
...
>> When I display the Add or Remove Program screen, the
date shown for "Last
>> Used On" is way out of date (sometimes months), and I
know that certain
>> programs have run frequently. Therefore, it also
labels many of my
>programs
>> as "Used Rarely" when they are, in fact, used
frequently. I do not know
>if
>> this might cause some problem, and wanted to run it
past someone in this
>> forum. Advice appreciated.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
>.
>