Cant 'Add or Remove Programs'

What is likely to be wrong when it is impossible to remove programs from 'Add or Remove Programs' in the control panel? There isn't a button to do this, as there has always been when I use the tool.

I'm currently running through the malware removal steps, and cant get over this hurdle.

Want to remove Super Anti-Spyware in particular, went to C/Program files, and cant fully delete the program.

From previous posts on this issue I gathered I should Run REGEDIT, and so I changed a view programs back, but the full list of programs did not exist for me to complete the process.

Should I use system restore? Or is it even advisable to use it?

thanks

deepat

 

Thanks,
I can see the applet but when I go into 'Add/Remove Programs' , I can only remove those programs I fixed when I ran 'regedit' .

Also, there is a contradiction between what programs I find listed when I look under C;/Progam files, and what I find in the 'A/R Programs' . Is this common or a peculiarity?

I ran the program suggested but it only listed the programs I can already remove.

I did try to use system restore, but when I tried it failed. Thankfully' cos I do indeed want to get to the bottom of this!!

This is a Tuffie (tough)

 

Guy's been trying to hold back on bumping this thread along, are there any solutions at all with this problem?

 

Using Windows XP

I want to have the option to remove any programs, if you get my meaning.
In particular want to update java, and delete windows defender.

Tried to run 'Malwarebytes' previously today, got this message

'Run time error
Out of Memory'

What 'memory' are they allerting me to, and how can I fix it? Is it Virtual Memory ?

Cheers Doc

 

SAS Removal Tool. http://www.superantispyware.com/downloads/SASUNINST.EXE

 

Hey guys, anyone have any ideas how to get to the root of this.

Your advice is appreciated, however all you are suggesting is papering over the cracks.

Any real solutions out there?

 

Maybe you need to be a little more specific.

Any error messages and so on.

 

Hi,

Apart from not being able to remove programs from the control panel, I usually get this error, after a program launch failure or when I try to install/update a security program;

'Run time error 'series of numbers 0000....etc'
Out of Memory'

What 'memory' are they allerting me to, and how can I fix it? Is it Virtual Memory ?

However I notice my screen tends to pause momentarily, for example, if I open a file (on WinXP)....the icons on my desktop dissappear, then appear again, (like a flicker, if you can imagine)

These are the main problems!