I was installing software last night and decided to uninstall it. When I went to Add and Remove programs, the Currently Installed Programs box won’t populate with currently installed programs. How can I get this list to populate again?

Don't know how to populate it, don't use it myself. CCleaner has an uninstaller. Open CC & click on Tools. http://www.ccleaner.com/ http://ccleaner.com/download/builds... http://www.ccleaner.com/help/tour/ http://www.download.com/How-to-use-... One advantage of this cleaner is, when Issues is clicked & the boxes ticked, it will tell you before you fix ( doing one file at a time ) why the file is there. CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.:) Windows 95/98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003

Add/Remove fix The above fix is very lengthy. I think you may find that simply using START - Run and typing sfc /scannow would be an eaiser fix. That's a space between the c and /. You will need the xp cd to run scannow. sLLs

Had the exact same problem recently. Turns out the HD was failing. You might try running a diagnostic on the HD, just to be sure.

Thanks! I uninstalled Nikon Picture Project and probably corrupted the registry. And this HDD does have bad blocks but the clone of this drive does not and I get the same behavior. I have a Ghost Image of the C: partition from 12/30/06. I think I'll try that.

Chkdsk in XP http://www.freepctech.com/pc/xp/xp0... http://kb.ultratech-llc.com/?File=S... http://labmice.techtarget.com/windo... Information about the chkdsk command http://www.computerhope.com/chkdskh... How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=...