Add or Remove

Factual Questions
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As loath as I am to add yet another tale of computing woe to the tide behind me, I find myself stumped. Shortly (a day or two) after installing and then immediately uninstalling some third-party software I found that my control panel “Add or Remove Programs” now fails to start. When I try it returns the error message: “Value creation failed " at line 472”. I can then press ok, and experience no other ill effects. Note that the quotation mark in the error message is not a typo on my part; I suspect that it may have been intended as a pair of apostrophes to enclose some value that returned null.

I am reasonably certain that the cause is not a virus or other nasty, as Norton AntiVirus is fully updated and auto-protecting. I also availed myself of the other tools, such as the Disk Doctor and WinDoctor, which found nothing amiss.

So, any ideas?

2

Try the accepted answer (highlighted with a green banner) here.

3

Thanks, works fine now, even if the window effects don’t show. Thanks for the fast response!