Did you do a parallel installation?  Attempt a clean installation?  Do a
repair installation?  Use a registry cleaner product?  Use a hard disk drive
cleanup?  Delete directories randomly?  Allow someone other than yourself to
utilize your compiuter without you watching them and they may have done
that?  Gotten and cleaned off a virus/trojan/worm or spyware/adware/malware?

What operating system is this?
What edition of said operating system?
What service pack (last one installed) is installed on this system?
What antivirus software do you utilize?
How many users are on this system?
What do you do for backups?
Are these programs under the C:\Program Files\ directory structure (the ones
you supposedly cannot find...)?
What are the names of some of these programs?

It's quite possible that the registry entry for the program location is
either missing or corrupt, I might try to reinstall the program to
resolve any missing registry info.

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I have programs that are listed in the control panel under add or remove
programs "Currently installed programs" when I run the search to find
them on the hard drive only short cuts show up. When selected the short
cut can't be found. How do I locate the program nothing is comming up in
the searchs except for short cuts that can't be found when selected. Are
the programs really still there or is it possible they have been
removed?

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