HOW CAN HIDE YOUR APPS........
HOW TO HIDE A APPLICATION FROM ADD OR REMOVE
PROGRAMMES
The Add or Remove programs feature in Control Panel
shows us the list of all programs installed in the PC . Due to some reason if
we don’t want any particular programs to show up in the list, use the following
trick to hide programs from add/remove programs list in Control Panel.
The program list which is shown in add/remove programs
is collect from registry path shown below :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window\Current
Version\Uninstall
So all we need to do is to go to that particular
uninstall entry of the program and change the display name. Here i will show
you an example on how to hide Yahoo..
Messenger from Add/remove program list. Similarly you
can do the same trick to hide programs
like utorrent.Google Talk, MSN Messenger,Facebook Messenger etc...
How to hide programs from Add/remove programs list :
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Example shown below explains us how
hide Yahoo Messenger.
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Click Start and type “Regedit.exe”
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Right click on Regedit.exe and select Run
as Administrator [you’ll require admin right to edit registry]
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Navigate to the following location:
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window\Current
Version\Uninstall\Yahoo Messenger
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Click on Yahoo Messenger on right
pane.
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Now you can see the options coming
up for Yahoo Messenger in the right pane of registry editor.
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In the right pane, Select Display
Name.
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Right click on Display Name and
Select Rename.
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Now change it any other value, like
for example you can change it to Never Display Name or No Display Name.
After completing this trick, Yahoo Messenger program
will not be shown in the Add/Remove program list..
Similarly you can repeat the same trick to hide other
programs which you want to hide from Add/Remove Programs List, like Messenger, Utorrents,
download managers etc..
This hack for hiding programs from control panel will
work on Windows vista, Windows XP, Windows 7 & Windows 8......!!
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