re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Monday, December 3, 2007 at 10:35 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by melissa (1 messages posted) Hi Sean....wondering if you got anywhere with this problem....It appears my computer is inflicted with the same thing...any suggestions on what worked best would be appretiated...thankx On Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm, Sean wrote: >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. Written in response to: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Sean: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Sean: Tue, Oct 2, 2007, 11:33 pm) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (DEX: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 8:15 am) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Matt: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 1:35 pm) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (jj: Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 10:48 am) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Jerry: Tue, Nov 13, 2007, 12:26 pm) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (melissa: Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 10:35 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum