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Programs and Features listing missing info
The "Date Modified" and "Type" columns in the listing of Programs and
Features is (suddenly!) empty - no info at all. It looks as if the list of programs is correct, but those two columns are all blank... ? |
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Programs and Features listing missing info
Jason wrote:
The "Date Modified" and "Type" columns in the listing of Programs and Features is (suddenly!) empty - no info at all. It looks as if the list of programs is correct, but those two columns are all blank... ? Because the desktop "Programs and Features" is one of those special shell folders where default columns are Name, Publisher, Installed On, Size, and Version. Not supposed to have "Date Modified" and "Type" columns. Have you been messing in the registry? -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Jason wrote:
In article , says... Have you been messing in the registry? Nope. "Publisher", "Installed On", "Size", and "Version" show up in this list on my other Win 10 machine. All I've done with the machine is to try (again) to update Win 10 to the latest version. The update failed, as usual, and now I see what I reported. Could the failed update somehow have caused this? appwiz.cpl corrupted? Maybe run sfc? -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Jason wrote: In article , says... Have you been messing in the registry? Nope. "Publisher", "Installed On", "Size", and "Version" show up in this list on my other Win 10 machine. All I've done with the machine is to try (again) to update Win 10 to the latest version. The update failed, as usual, and now I see what I reported. Could the failed update somehow have caused this? appwiz.cpl corrupted? Maybe run sfc? # These three commands verify WINSXS contents Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /CheckHealth - This switch option only checks to see if a component corruption marker is already present in the registry. It is just a quick way to see if corruption currently exists, and to inform you if there is corruption. It does not fix anything or create a log. This should be finished almost instantaneous. /ScanHealth - This switch option does not fix any corruption. It only checks for component store corruption and records that corruption to the log file. This is useful for only logging what, if any, corruption exists. This should take around 5-10 minutes to finish. /RestoreHealth - This switch option checks for component store corruption, records the corruption to the log file, and FIXES the image corruption using Windows Update. This should take around 10-15 minutes up to a few hours to finish depending on the level of corruption. # Once WINSXS is verified, this command # checks the system files hard-linked in from WINSXS. A subset # of WINSXS is hard-linked (complete with different, shorter # file names), into System32. sfc /scannow # If a rootkit is present, it will laugh at these # attempts to remove it. Rootkits are not as prevalent as # they once were, but a small percentage of infections still # use rootkits. They haven't disappeared completely. ******* Versions of the above commands also exist, for usage from an emergency boot CD. Which is called "doing an offline repair". ******* This is not sufficient to guarantee that malware is not present. The procedures so far, haven't touched the Registry, checked for stuff in a Startup folder, checked Task Scheduler. There are likely to be lots of ways for stuff to hide, that doesn't want to be found. Naive repair techniques are best suited, to correcting hardware-induced errors (a CRC error in a DLL perhaps). ******* In the WinXP era, all we had was SFC, and it would moan and whine about needing an installer CD with reference files to use. The Win10 versions have demonstrated their ability to do stuff via the Internet, but I think I've still seen cases of moaning and whining. So they're not completely immune to that :-) Paul |
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Programs and Features listing missing info
Jason wrote:
lws4art SAID ... Have you been messing in the registry? Nope. "Publisher", "Installed On", "Size", and "Version" show up in this list on my other Win 10 machine. All I've done with the machine is to try (again) to update Win 10 to the latest version. The update failed, as usual, and now I see what I reported. Could the failed update somehow have caused this? As I recall, the only columns (the standard ones) in that wizard are Name, Publisher, Installed On, Size, and Version (like Jonathan Little mentioned). You can right-click on the column header row, select More (to add more columns) but that doesn't mean the wizard will support those additional columns. By the way, back in Windows 7 (I'm at home now, not at work where there are Windows 10 hosts on which to check), although I can add more columns to show in that wizard, none of that are labelled "Date Modified" or "Type". Are you sure you are looking at the columns in the Programs & Features wizard or in File/Windows Explorer? I have read where users reported (for Windows 8 and 10) that the Installed On and Version columns got changed to Date Modified and Type (and they are blank). In that case, right-click on the column header row, select More, and deselect Date Modified and Type columns (the wizard doesn't know what to do with those data attributes). Then select the Installed On and Version columns. I don't know if you have to log off and back on or reboot Windows to make this change stick. --- Not a valid signature delimiter line, so the following spamifies the body of your post. This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. hxxp:// www. avg. c0m Configure your choice of anti-virus software to *not* spamify your posts. In Avast (and maybe in AVG), the mail scan module appends this spam (but with an invalid signature line) by default. Turn it off. Or uninstall the mail shield module since it is superfluous. It adds no further protection than does the on-access (real-time) scanner. Since your starting post isn't spamified with AVG's spammy pseudo sig, I'm guessing your 1st and 2nd posts were from different hosts. |
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Programs and Features listing missing info
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:31:39 -0400 "Paul" wrote in
article # These three commands verify WINSXS contents No errors were found. sfc result is also clean. I do the usual, pedestrian things to check for malware - none found. I'm beginning to think of Windows 10 as malware... For fun, I tried a "clean install" from a burned DVD. It reached a reboot and up came the logo and the twirling dots. After a minute, the dots froze up and there was no discernible activity. I let it sit for an hour. Nada. On a second try, I formatted the SSD that is to be C:. This time, install rebooted and complained that a driver was missing. Understandable, but, this being Microsoft, there was NO indication as to just which driver was causing the problem. Per the millions of suggestions online, I have unhooked everything USB, deleted/unhooked printers & scanners, etc. There are still a LOT of drivers in the picture, but since video card drivers are often mentioned as a source of trouble, I've created a CD with the latest Nvidia driver and will feed it to Setup at the beginning next time when it asks for drivers. |
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Jason wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:31:39 -0400 "Paul" wrote in article # These three commands verify WINSXS contents No errors were found. sfc result is also clean. I do the usual, pedestrian things to check for malware - none found. I'm beginning to think of Windows 10 as malware... For fun, I tried a "clean install" from a burned DVD. It reached a reboot and up came the logo and the twirling dots. After a minute, the dots froze up and there was no discernible activity. I let it sit for an hour. Nada. On a second try, I formatted the SSD that is to be C:. This time, install rebooted and complained that a driver was missing. Understandable, but, this being Microsoft, there was NO indication as to just which driver was causing the problem. Per the millions of suggestions online, I have unhooked everything USB, deleted/unhooked printers & scanners, etc. There are still a LOT of drivers in the picture, but since video card drivers are often mentioned as a source of trouble, I've created a CD with the latest Nvidia driver and will feed it to Setup at the beginning next time when it asks for drivers. I had something weird happen here, about 20 minutes ago. Win10 Insider is preparing for an update. When I wasn't looking, it went to sleep! And it was set to "Never sleep". The Reliability monitor claimed, on the other hand, that it had done an unclean shutdown. When it was sleeping. This is the first time the Insider Edition has done something goofy like that. I can't imagine what the root cause was. Some of the Windows 10 install methods, download drivers from Microsoft in advance of starting the install. The "Windows Upgrade" icon a 14393 user might see sitting on the desktop, might queue up drivers as it is downloading the DVD-sized image. The Windows Update based upgrade install, probably does the same thing. The DVD install ("clean install") doesn't queue up anything as far as I know. The system can use the "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" driver for most supported (or unsupported) video cards. There are in-box USB drivers of all sorts. There is an IDE driver, and AHCI driver, and so on. Generally, most of the basics needed to "tip the OS upright" are in the box. Now the question would be, what in-box driver isn't enough for your system. To keep it upright, we don't even need a NIC driver. Just the video card and disk driver should be enough to make the desktop visible. Without any balls freezing. ******* If you boot (or install) any other kind of OS, what happens ? I can tell you, on my eighteen year old P2B-S system, I got a surprise one day. I'd always had as a hypothesis, that Win98SE had something to do with all my problems. I had some video sensitivity problems, but only if more than 768MB of RAM was installed. Well, one day, on a lark, I booted a Linux distro of the time. And guess what, move the mouse a few inches on the screen and... crash! So a second OS showed that hardware was the issue. For that system, I've since narrowed it down. It's a four slot memory system (all sitting on a *single* bus). It is stable with 256MB, 256MB, 128MB, 64MB DIMMs. That means, from an impedance standpoint, that's a "full load" on the pad drivers. Yet, if I switch to 256,256,256 it's crash-ola. It's the *total* RAM that matters to that system. It's not the Photoshop bug, where Vtt bulk capacitance needs to be increased. There's something Intel didn't tell us, about the max allowed RAM... I don't suspect anything of the kind from your system. It's hard to imagine a weak link. If you like puzzles though, and you have 4x2GB installed in the system, well, try a Windows install with just one 2GB stick. It's far from optimal from a bandwidth perspective, but you're trying a "variation of parameters" test. Just in case... Paul |
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Programs and Features listing missing info
In article , lid says...
but you're trying a "variation of parameters" test. Success! I re-burned the DVD with a fresh download...the original DVD picked up a scratch somewhere. It was 3 weeks old, so the new one might be a newer build. In any case, installation succeeded. Update afterwards installed a small handful of drivers - fewer than I would have expected. Re-installing the apps is a pain but has the upside that years worth of cruft that accumulates in Windows systems is gone for now. Thanks for all your help and suggestions. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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