Programs that have been manually removed by the user or other programs may cause Microsoft Windows Add/Remove programs to be unable to remove the program from the Add/Remove programs list. When this occurs, Microsoft Windows Add/Remove programs may generate the below error.
An error similar to “An error occurred while trying to remove program. Uninstallation has been cancelled.” may be displayed
The listing for a program can be manually removed from Add/Remove programs by using Microsoft’s TweakUI or deleting the entry from the registry.
TweakUI
Open TweakUI; if you do not have TweakUI installed, download and install it.
In TweakUI click the Add/Remove tab.
Within the Add/Remove programs tab, select the programs you wish to remove and click the Remove button.
Windows Registry
NOTE: Backup the registry before making any changes
1. Open registry editor by clicking Start, Run and typing regedit
2. Within the registry, open the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall”
3. Within the key select the corrupted program and hit delete.
TweakUI
