Very "thick" a program in the "Add/Remove Programs" list win xp

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lemon_spb2012-03-29 15:59:58

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lemon_spb, 2012-03-29 15:59:58

A colleague at work “boasted” of a strange list of installed programs (start-> control panel-> add or remove programs).
He surprised me very much, could not help but ask a question to connoisseurs. What could it possibly be?
It looks like it's one thick list item.

1. It starts like this: (warm-up of the finger on the mouse wheel :-))

2. It continues like this:

3. Then like this:

4. Then like this:

5. Steps 2-4 are repeated four times.

6. All this happiness ends like this: There are

no buttons to delete / change, apparently. But this whole "element" can be distinguished, like others. Then it will be here in these colors:

The machine is licensed windows XP sp3
Antivirus outpost security suite 7.1.1 free with a firewall.
The phenomenon has been observed for a long time. Reboots, of course, do not help.
Otherwise, Windows works like normal Windows.

I ask not necessarily a way to get rid of, rather just wondering: what could it be?
Thanks in advance :-)

UPD: when changing the width of the window, the width of these vertical stripes and the distance between them change proportionally

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haoose, 2012-03-29
@limon_spb

In alphabetical order, it looks like habrahabr.ru/ got into the list)
But seriously, look in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall There everything that is in the list in the window

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CKOPOBAPKuH, 2012-03-29
@CKOPOBAPKuH

Some long cat

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Andrey, 2012-03-29
@reaferon

In my Ubuntu, the graphics driver was buggy very similar (manifested about scrolling).
Perhaps this is the reason for this, try updating the firewood for the vidyuhu.

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Leonid Volkanin, 2012-03-31
@volkanin

Adding and Removing Programs in XP is an HTA (HTML Application). Clear explorer cache and open again. Helped me :)

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Zhbert, 2012-03-29
@Zhbert

Seems like a common glitch to me. It's like a notorious feature when you can draw whole pictures from the waves and hills with a window.

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egorinsk, 2012-03-29
@egorinsk

This is apparently used by the Internet Explorer component to display a list with all the consequences (who has WinSpy ++ from visual studio - check, I don't have it).

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andrey_kl, 2012-03-30
@andrey_kl

Have a conscience - put a habrakat.