Ken;632315 Wrote:
> I am running Vista Ultimate on one machine and Vista Home Premium on
> another
> machine. Something has happened to the Control Panel on the Ultimate
> machine. When I bring up the Control Panel window in the "Control
> Panel
> Home" view the icon on the desktop is the correct icon (looks like a
> little
> panel display). However, when I select the "Classic View" a new window
> opens and the icon changes to a blank page with the upper right hand
> corner
> folded over. If I close the "Classic View" window first and then the
> "Control Panel Home" window the icon returns to the good one. Also, in
> the
> Start Menu if the "Display as Link" option (Start
> Button>Properties>Start
> Menu>Customize>Control Panel) is selected for the Control Panel
> nothing
> happens when I click on the Control Panel (button?) in the Start Menu.
> If
> the "Display as Menu" option is selected for the Control Panel the list
> of
> Control Panel stuff appears as a menu when I click on Control Panel in
> the
> Start Menu - as it should. Neither of these problems are show stoppers
> but
> somewhere a long the line I have done something to screw up the
> registry??
> Can anyone give me a hint what to do, who to contact, or where to look
> in
> the registry to attempt to fix these two (probably related) problems.
> This
> system has been running Vista since it first came out and I dread
> having to
> reinstall Vista and all the other stuff from scratch. I have asked for
> help
> on this issue several times and several ways but so far have come up
> empty.
> Help is needed.
Ken,
I'd do a couple of things first.
1. Try a system restore to a time before this started happening.
2. If the restore doesn't work, try a system repair using the Vista
DVD.
If these things don't resolve the problem, let us know and we'll expand
our search for a solution.
--
.Joe
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