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Add/Remove a program in Vista?
Name: Matthew Ebien-Pesa (by mebienpesa) Date: July 2, 2007 at 19:39:43 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Home Basic. CPU/Ram: 1 gb Product: Acer Laptop
Comment:
Hi! Everybody, How do you remove a program in Windows Vista Home Basic,because I could not find the Add/Remove option in my Control Panel! Thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions! Matthew.
Name: Sabertooth Date: July 2, 2007 at 20:00:29 Pacific
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Click the Start orb in Vista simply type program in the "Start Search" field, Vista will populate all possible permutation for that word "program" including "Programs & Features" which is what you are looking for. All this takes about 2-3 seconds tops.
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Response Number 2
Name: blackbill Date: July 3, 2007 at 04:38:19 Pacific
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It's in Control panel labeled as PROGRAMS AND FEATURES.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: July 3, 2007 at 05:31:54 Pacific
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Sabertooth I tried your tip - it just won't do. Am I missing something?
In any event the path to quickly access Vista Add/Remove programs is cumbersome (Why did M$ redesigned it is beyond me). See the link beloww ...
Name: XpUser Date: July 3, 2007 at 08:19:16 Pacific
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Better yet just add shortcuts with the following commands:
For Programs and Features (Add or remove programs): %windir%\system32\control.exe /name (notice the space /name)
For Windows features: %windir%\system32\OptionalFeatures.exe
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: Sabertooth Date: July 3, 2007 at 08:21:32 Pacific
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XpUser,
That Vista "Start Search" tool works wonders on this machine. It put my programs & tons of other stuff right at my fingertips.
I don't know why it doesn't work for you, but I'm thinking maybe you do not have the "search programs" option enabled in your Start Menu properties. You could check that.
Good luck!
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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser Date: July 3, 2007 at 08:34:19 Pacific
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D'uh - I was using Classic Start menu - no wonder why I couldn't find it! Thanks :-) BTW I think you will like the two shortcuts posted earlier.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 7
Name: Sabertooth Date: July 3, 2007 at 09:20:35 Pacific
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Yes .... they do come in handy ;-)
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Response Number 8
Name: Matthew Ebien-Pesa (by mebienpesa) Date: July 3, 2007 at 17:07:52 Pacific
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Thanks to all of you who responded so quickly in solving my problem.It was a great help and I finally solved it! Thanks again to all of you! Matthew.
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