If your Add/Remove list is getting cluttered after you installed an application that makes multiple entries in it (Visual Studio added more than 10 things while we were testing) and you have no intention of uninstalling it from there, or you want to remove a Key logging/Screen Capture program you installed to monitor your kids from the programs list because you don’t want your smarties to simply uninstall it, there is a way to remove entries from ‘Programs and Features’ List.
- Open Run Dialog box with [Win] + [R]
- Type RegEdit and press Enter to Open Windows Registry Editor.
- Scroll to the entry:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
- In the left pane, there are programs installed on your computer, some represented by their name, and some by random numbers and letters. Right Pane shows you their display name.
- Find the key of the program you intend to hide.
- Back it up so that at least you can uninstall it by restoring the key. Select it in the left pane. Then click on File > Export and save it with a name that reminds you of what you are about to do
- Now delete the key by right clicking it and Selecting Delete. This removes the entry for that program from the Programs list. You can restore it back by double clicking the reg file you just saved in the last step.
Credit: Digit Magazine
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