How to hide a entry in the Add/remove Programs applet?

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This article discusses the methods to hide a entry in the Add/remove Programs listing. Following any one of the methods is enough. This article are all on registry editing, so being sure to has appropriate backup (s) in place. For more information on registry backup, See here

The Add/remove Programs list is populated from the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ currentversion \ Uninstall

Under the Uninstall key, there'll be is several sub-keys, each representing a software program this you installed. The following example shows how to hide the analogx Proxy entry from Add/remove Programs listing:

Method 1

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ currentversion \ Uninstall \ ANALOGX Proxy

• In the Right-pane, right-click the DisplayName value and choose Rename
• Rename it to anything (for example, nodisplayname )

The ANALOGX Proxy entry is now hidden. To make it visible again, rename the value DisplayName

Method 2

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ currentversion \ Uninstall \ ANALOGX Proxy

• In the Right-pane, create a new REG_DWORD value named systemcomponent
• Double-click systemcomponent and set its data to 1

The ANALOGX Proxy entry is now hidden. To make it visible again, delete the SystemComponent value, created earlier.

More information

In this example, the name of the sub-key were ANALOGX Proxy, which is easily identifiable. In some cases, the sub-key names is not obvious, and there would be a list of GUIDs entries similar to the following:

• {00000409-78e1-11d2-b60f-006097c998e7}
• {1cb92574-96f2-467b-b793-5ceb35c40c29}
• {2318c2b1-4965-11d4-9b18-009027a5cd4f}
• {350c97b0-3d7c-4ee8-baa9-00bcb3d54227}

In such cases, you can select the entry and look in the Right-pane for the DisplayName string. The string tells you the name of the application concerned.

How to hide a entry in the Add/remove Programs applet?