Parts of Vista failing

The control panel cannot be accessed from the start menu, you cannot open
display properties from right clicking on the desktop, you get no
functionality in the security center, printers will not print. I was printing
fine yesterday but when I came in this morning it was broke again. I restored
to restore point of yesterday and all was working again. This is an issue
with Vista. It is not machine
specific. I know of others having the same problem. I checked the event
viewer but did not notice any updates.
Can anyone help with this?

How does this pertain to Windows Update, Dan?

Vista-specific newsgroups include:

microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_acco unts_passwords
microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
microsoft.public.windows.vista.games
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_assessment
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_vide o
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_mainten ance
microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan
microsoft.public.windows.vista.security

Click on of the following links to open the newsgroup in your default
newsreader:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...unts_passwords
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ile_management
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ws.vista.games
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....vista.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...are_assessment
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rdware_devices
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...allation_setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ctures_vide o
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...orking_sharing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof..._mainten ance
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...print_fax_scan
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...vista.security
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


Dan@Cornetser wrote:
> The control panel cannot be accessed from the start menu, you cannot open
> display properties from right clicking on the desktop, you get no
> functionality in the security center, printers will not print. I was
> printing fine yesterday but when I came in this morning it was broke
> again.
> I restored to restore point of yesterday and all was working again. This
> is
> an issue with Vista. It is not machine
> specific. I know of others having the same problem. I checked the event
> viewer but did not notice any updates.
> Can anyone help with this?