Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel broken

On a Vista Home Premium system, I am trying to remove programs via the
control panel. It lists them all just fine, but nothing *nothing*
happens if I click on an entry.

Any ideas?

Jason
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When you click an entry, does "Uninstall" appear in the menu bar?

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"Jason" <nerraw_nosaj@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.221fe3d3cce4075d9897b9@news.verizon.net...
> On a Vista Home Premium system, I am trying to remove programs via the
> control panel. It lists them all just fine, but nothing *nothing*
> happens if I click on an entry.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jason
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> reverse my name in email address

In article <718CA0F7-32D8-4C5B-9D04-8868AD04FE23@microsoft.com>,
rgharper@email.com says...
> When you click an entry, does "Uninstall" appear in the menu bar?
>
>
Nope. That's why I'm here...

Nothing happens when I click *any* entry.

Jason
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reverse my name in email address

In article <718CA0F7-32D8-4C5B-9D04-8868AD04FE23@microsoft.com>,
rgharper@email.com says...
> When you click an entry, does "Uninstall" appear in the menu bar?
>
>
Hmm. But if I View Installed Updates and click an item, the Uninstall
option does show up. Hadn't tried that before.


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In article <718CA0F7-32D8-4C5B-9D04-8868AD04FE23@microsoft.com>,
rgharper@email.com says...
> When you click an entry, does "Uninstall" appear in the menu bar?
>
>
Sorry to keep posting like this, but I made another discovery. In the
plain Uninstall or Change panel, I noticed that the Publisher entry for
most of my apps is blank, i.e., ALL the Adobe programs. None of them
offers Uninstall if I click. *But* for programs that have a non-blank
Publisher entry, I *do* get the options when I click.

Stranger and stranger...


Jason
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Well, one more addition...

I installed several Adobe apps and Office 2007. That seems to be when the
trouble began. As I mentioned in the previous post, if Publisher is missing
in the list, I have the nothing-happens problem.

In fact, it's more general.

MOST of the entries in the list have no information whatsoever except the
name of the program. NONE of those respond to a click. The few programs that
do have all the information listed DO give me the uninstall/repair option.

It's as if vista has lost track of most of the programs and does not have
sufficient information to perform the uninstall.

I had thought it might be some permissions problem, but now I don't think so.

I think it's missing/corrupted data about the installed apps.

Is there a way to cajole vista into re-examining everything? (I should live
so long...)

Jason