Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!!
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm
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Posted by Sean
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I just recently cleared my friend's pc of viruses and lots of spyware. Everything
seems to be clean but now I'm having MAJOR issues. Here's a few things that are occuring:
1. Control Panel is missing - it's missing from the start menu, and even trying to
access control panel programs from the command prompt brings up a message that state's
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system administrator." I have already attempted the popular registry
fix for this problem that says to remove the key NoControlPanel from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
I have also tried the gpedit.msc fix, and that has not resolved the problem.
Next, I cannot access regedit. I get the following message, "Registry editing has
been disabled by your administrator." I had to download a 3rd party registry editor
to gain access to the registry.
Next, while attempting to install Ad-aware 7 I get a message about the Windows Installer
could not be accessed.
Finally, when logging into windows normally (not in safe mode like I was doing for
the above tests), navigating to the Program Files folder and the Winnt folder shows
just an empty folder, but you can see the number of files in the folder in the status
bar. The icons are completely gone!
I realize this might be one of those "oh just reinstall windows 2000", but this is
not an option for me because I do not have access to a windows 2000 pro installation
disc.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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