Add/Remove Programs Hangs - Please Wait While List Is Being Populated
Jan 7, 2008
My hard drive with my OS on it ended up going bad. When it went bad, I had a slave drive with some data on it set up that happened to get corrupted along the way. So I removed the bad drive, put a new drive in and installed a fresh copy of xp w sp2. Did all my updates, everything ran perfect. Now I left my slave drive alone with my date on it. Some of my data got corrupted and if you went looking around in there, a message would come up drive not formatted if I opened certain folder on that drive. Some of the data was still good. Well anyways I noticed on my brand new fresh install, if I went to add/remove programs it would sit there and hang. It would say please wait while list is being populated. If I let it sit long enough it would eventually come up but something was definitely wrong. So while I am sitting here waiting for the list to load, I noticed my hard drive activity light was lit on my tower and seemed like the hard drive was very busy. So after googling some more and not finding any help I figured I would try and fix it myself.
I ended up getting what I could off my slave drive and downloaded maxblast and cleared everything out and re-set the drive and deleted and created a new partition. Well guess what, my add remove programs now works perfect after clearing out my slave drive. I'm guessing what was happening was for whatever reason the add remove programs was trying to scan Drive D: for whatever reason and it had corrupt data on it which is why it took so long. I'm not saying this is going to solve all hang ups, but I tried every tip I could find and no dice. This actually worked. So if you are having trouble take a good look at your hard drives and make sure they are in good working order.
I just looked at a previous thread with the hangup of Add/Remove program with it never populating. Never get a clear answer, just added a backup drive, may have something to do with it hanging up?
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Just ran my Add/Remove Programs utility from the Control panel, and it said populating please wait. Half an hour later, the list still has nothing in it ! Windows XP Home Edition SP 2 How can I fix this?
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How do i get A/R programmes to show what is loaded on the pooter?
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Every time i login , i get the following error at the account selection screen , Since i don't know anything about softwares i click on OK everytime . After that as the desktop is loading , I get a send error report prompt saying that Firedaemon.exe has encountered some problem . So that means firedaemon is causing this error to pop up .But the thing is that i never installed firedaemon into my computer and i can't find it in Add or Remove programs list either .
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Previous owner of my PC manually deleted files for certain games etc without going through the uninstall processes required. Now my "Add/Remove Programs" list is over-populated with items I can't remove, and I'd like to get rid of them.Is there a directory I can go to, or a method of doing so?
i have some problem with my windows. while start my windows after bootscreen a message appear plz wait.....................................................................................................................................................
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When I click on the "All Programs" in the start menu, it comes up in one long single listing. It used to be 2 listings, when the 1st had enough, the second listing would be next to it. However it's all in a single listing now. How can I get it back to 2 lists?? This is a clear explanation.
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I have tried searching this forum and did some Googling but haven't seen a cure for this. I have a pretty fair amount of programs installed and my 'all programs' list is pretty long. The problem is it takes almost 30 seconds to scroll from the top to the bottom, which is annoying when I want to start a program that's at the bottom (or top) of the list. Does anyone know of a registry hack or something that can speed it up?
