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...very well covered.

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