Disable Access to Add or Remove Programs

Disable Access to Add or Remove Programs!, restrict other users from uninstalling any programs. Suppose for security purpose you want to restrict other users from uninstalling any programs.


Just delete all the uninstall links of the programs from the start menu as all most all programs can be removed from control panel > add or remove programs option & then disable access to the add or remove programs itself.

So here's the hack



Start regedit by go to start > run & type in regedit and press enter.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies

Right click on policies & create a new key by selecting new > key.

Name the new key Uninstall

Now select the newly created key ie Uninstall.

Now create a new DWORD value on the right pane of the regedit window

and name it NoAddRemovePrograms and set value to 1.


This should disable your Add or Remove Programs.To re-enable your Add or Remove Programs just set the early created NoAddRemovePrograms keys value to 0.