Yesterday 2 of you stuck and helped me get my Control Panel back. The actual answer was the Registry Edit changing from 1 to 0. Now I still have a control panel problem that is just as bad as not have one. Whenever I start the control panel from the start menu I immediately get a popup that says:


"Window Explorer has ENCOUNTERED a problem and needs to close. We are sorry...blah, blah." It asks if I want to send an error message to Microsoft and I always way YES. I figgure If they get enough one one kind of error message they will pay attention to it.

I am running a 3Mhz, dual pententium IV system with 1GB of Ram and 2 160GB hard drives with Windows XPSP2 Professional and have had this configuration for about 2 YEARS without any modifications with the exception of adding a second drive about 1 year ago. I have Norton/Symantic total package( sorry about that ), Webroot and have tried various other products to root these problems out. At the suggestion from someone yesterday I downloaded and ran 'Registry Mechanic'. It sure found problems, but now claims that all are fixed.

So far, everything else I've tested seems to run OK, but I do need my control panel to work so I can get RID of some stuff--like Norton, plus makes some tweaks for my work. By the way it's a stand-alone system with broadband and Voanage.

Like always, any help will be much appreciated as I am an independent programming developer and don't have many computer savy people to talk to.

Dave




Hi!
solution for this...
1.goto regedit FORM run menu
2.select my computer
3.press ctrl+f then type no control panel.4.
4.change the value from 1 to 0




regards,
sathish