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.