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Hide a Program from being listed in Add/Remove programs

Need to hide some program you have installed on some machine ?  Wanna prevent your program from being removed by admin ? Or wanna be safe from some security audit!!! Here's the Trick.... First the bottom line/concept   The Add/Remove Programs list is populated from the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall. So ,we can modify the entries here ! The Hack begins... Just follow these steps( u must be admin ): Press start button + R. and goto "Run". type regedit. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall. Here find the program you want to hide.(eg. Mozilla Firefox) In the right-pane, right-click the DisplayName value and choose Rename Rename it to anything (For example, NoDisplayName ) That's all. we are done. Now, windows does not know DisplayName for that program and will not load it in control panel. Do refer to this site for more details..