Windows 10: Unwanted folders in control panel

Hello,

After upgrading to Win 10 I noticed three old folders that are unusable, which are circled in the below picture
how can I get ride of them?





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Control Panel Uninstall will not show folders in C:\ProgramData

Hi,

I was trying to use Program Uninstall in Control Panel to get rid of PC Cleaner Pro that is in C:\ProgramData . It wasn't in the list of Programs. It appears that the only programs in the list are in C:\Program Files. Is there any safe way to get Control
Panel to access and remove programs in C:\ProgramData? I have Windows 10 Home Version 1607.

THANKS!!!

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Control Panel Uninstall will not show folders in C:\ProgramData

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Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 folder and search for *.cpl then delete the unwanted items.

 

The three folders cpl files are not available

 

Please open the Admin command prompt and run:
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

 

Those should not be folders, they should be the shortcuts. Sounds like something happened during the upgrade. If you are coming from 7 to 10, this is an odd one that no one has posted it happening to them. Were the shortcuts originally there in Windows 7?

Also was the machine infection clean and all updates installed?

 

the operation completed successfully

 

yes it was clean before and after the upgrade

 

If the 3 folders above were not listed as .cpl files. Chances they were created as namespaces. Run CCleaner to see if it can clean up those entries in the registry.

EDIT: If CCleaner cannot clean those entries. Open the registry and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace
Go thru the list to see if you can Identify them and delete.

 

this what I get when I am trying to delete the registry key " Unable to delete all specified values"