Consider this: Whenever a new error condition appears on your computer, it
is almost certain that there was some change to the computer soon before the
problem began. http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

"Ken" <krlorenz@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> After several hours of fooling around with Repair and Restore using the
> Vista Ultimate DVD and then going back one month and restoring the whole
> partition using Acronis I still have the problem. So whatever change
> occurred that caused the problem happened more than a month ago. Any
> further ideas or instructions?
>
> ".Joe" <Joe.35nzg4@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
> news:Joe.35nzg4@no-mx.forums.net...
>>
>> 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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