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Old March 7th 10, 06:30 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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My friend's (XP) computer has just started this symptom: add/remove comes
up, but then just sits there. It does _not_ say "please wait while list is
populated". If we try the "windows components" part, that _does_ appear.

We did a restart in safe mode, and then it _did_ populate. But coming back
to normal mode - it still doesn't.

He _thinks_ it dates from when he tried to install a very old mapping
softwa when run, that said "you need Windows 95 or later" or something
like that. So he thought he'd better remove it - and that's when A/R was
found not to be working. (The old software didn't show up in the list as
it appeared under safe mode; by then he'd I think removed it manually, but
he wouldn't have touched the registry.)

I've googled - there seem to be plenty of people who have it hang at
"please wait ... populated", though some of them say it does appear after
10 or 12 minutes. On Len's, that message doesn't appear.
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When you start the Add/Remove programs list wait a few minutes then attempt
to scroll down using scroll bar on the right side of the blank list. You
may find the programs way down in the scroll. If you then find the programs
you have found an issue with XP systems for years (since it came out.)
Apparently one program installed does something to a registry key that
causes this to happen. It's not serious just a PIA to remember to scroll
down.

Let me know if this is the issue you have with this system.

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