During Windows XP setup, there are programs that are installed automatically, the following components are installed by default: • Games • Accessories (Calculator, Clock, and so on) • Multimedia • Accessibility options These items also do not appear in the Add/Remove Programs tool in Control Panel when Setup is finished making you no choice if for any reason you want to uninstall this XP built-in programs.Luckily enough, there's still way to show up this programs in Add/Remove Programs and let you uninstall.To show this built-in programs in Add/Remove Programs, just follow the following steps: Go to Start>Run copy paste the following %SystemRoot%\Inf and locate Sysoc.inf file then open it using Notepad. For each component you want to appear in the Add/Remove Programs tool, remove the "Hide" comment. For example, change Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,HIDE,7 to: Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,,7 Then go to Control Panel Add/Remove Programs, and on the left side of the window click the Add/Remove Windows Component icon. (wait for the setup) Choose "Accessories and Utilities" and click details. The built-in program will then be shown on Add/Remove programs You will now have the options to uninstall the built-in programs.If you ejoyed this post you may want to read other posts of this blog