removing programmes

[spurslady]

I have a problem that on my hard drive there are several programmes that I have deleated, but I can not remove them from the Add - remove programmes section.

They came back on after I had to do a system restore for something, and because there is no data in them they are just an empty file. I would like to get rid of them any ideas?

thanks in advance

[mikeyp]

Sometimes if you try to click remove anyway and the program has already gone, it will ask you if you want to remove it from the Add/Remove programs list. Else, I personally would remove them from the registry as described here:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/ 110/

Deleting that key will remove a program from the Add/Remove programs list. Careful when deleting things from your registry though, you might want to set a system restore point.

[spurslady]

Thank you for your help I will give it a go.

[bill107]

Try this Add-Remove Pro ver. 2.08 or this Moveonboot