“Please wait while the list is being populated . . .”
Sometimes, when you pop up control panel to remove programs from the Add/Remove Programs feature, all it shows is a stupid message saying “please wait while the list is being populated” !!
Well, this might help! Not always, but it worked for me!
- Have .Net framework installed first
- Download RemoveWhitespaceFromAddRemovePrograms
- Run the RemoveWhitespaceFromAddRemovePrograms.exe (Not from a shared network drive, run it from physical location which has trouble !)
- Launch Add/Remove Programs again
This should set the things right with the list to be populated.
NOW for the geeky part of it, why does it happen?
Here is why!
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall lists the programs that are registered on the system. So they are to be displayed on the Add/Remove Programs list.
- The Utility Add/Remove Programs tries to find the icons of the registered programs to load the list
- If the program registered is with a bad/NONE/lost icon, the utility is kind of stuck OR keeps returning blank spaces to the applet that displays the populated list
- Result = Crappy display of list of items after scrolling through blank entries
OR no list populated at all - Here comes the part where we are frustrated at this old but new instance of insane windows troubles that we face everyday
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