Registry on "Programs and Features"

OPTION THREE

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Manually Using Registry Editor

1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type  regedit and press  Enter.

3. If prompted by UAC, click on the  Continue (Vista) or  Yes (Windows 7).

4. To do in 32 Bit and 64 Bit Windows

A) In regedit, go to: (See top screenshot below step 11)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

5. To do Only in 64 Bit Windows

A) In regedit, go to: (See bottom screenshot below step 11)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

   Warning

To be safe you should make a  Back Up of this key, just in case you delete something you did not want to.

• In the left pane, right click on Uninstall and click Export.
• In the Export Registry File dialog box, click Desktop in the Save in box and type Uninstall Backup in the File name box, then click Save.
• To Undo Changes you made to this Uninstall key and restore it back to as it is now, right click onUninstall Backup.reg and click Merge. Click Run, Continue (UAC), Yes, and then OK when prompted.

6. Click on  Continue (UAC-Vista) or  Yes (UAC-Windows 7),  Yes, and then  OK when prompted.

7. In the left pane, each subkey, folder with {long number} or program name, under  Uninstall represents a program that appears in the  Programs and Features uninstall list.

8. Click on a subkey, folder with {long number} or program name, under  Uninstall to determine which program that key represents.
NOTE:  In the right pane of the subkey:
DisplayName = Shows the name listed in Programs and Features.
UninstallString = Shows the full path of the program that is used to uninstall the program.

9. To Remove the Uninstall Entry 

A) Right click on the  subkey, folder with {long number} or program name in the  left pane, for the program you want to remove from the uninstall list and click  Delete.

B) Click on  YES to confirm the delete.

10. Open  Programs and Features and confirm that the uninstall entry is gone, then you can delete the  Uninstall Backup.reg (on desktop) file if you like.
NOTE:  See the Example at the top of this tutorial.

11. Close regedit.
NOTE:  The top screenshot is for the 32 bit Vista and 64 bit Vista, and the bottom screenshot is for only the 64 bit Vista.