Can't access add/remove windows components

G

Guest

Whenever I try to get to the add/remove windows components menu in add/remove
programs, it gives me this error message:
Setup was unable to open information file comnt5.inf.

Contact your system administrator. The specific error code is 0x2 at line
2088999411.

Then:

The application could not be initialized.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
S

S.Sengupta

Start>Run>type in:C:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf>ok
or,you can get it under
C:\Windows\INF
now Open the Sysoc.inf file by double clicking on it, or,you can do this
using Notepad.
There the items that have the word "HIDE" or "hide" in them are not
displayed on the Add/Remove Programs list.
Remove the "hide" text, leaving the commas.
Reboot your computer.
Now that component will then be viewable from Add\Remove programs.
You can choose to uninstall and reinstall the component as needed.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
 
G

Guest

try the command line:

appwiz.cpl

in Run box

S.Sengupta said:
Start>Run>type in:C:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf>ok
or,you can get it under
C:\Windows\INF
now Open the Sysoc.inf file by double clicking on it, or,you can do this
using Notepad.
There the items that have the word "HIDE" or "hide" in them are not
displayed on the Add/Remove Programs list.
Remove the "hide" text, leaving the commas.
Reboot your computer.
Now that component will then be viewable from Add\Remove programs.
You can choose to uninstall and reinstall the component as needed.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
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R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

See if your hard disk has the i386 folder (which contains the XP setup
files).
 
G

Guest

Yeah I have the I386 folder, but it doesn't contain the comnt5 file, and
there is no file with that name anywhere on my computer.
 
G

Guest

Thanks Ramesh and Kelly. Turns out I did have comnt5.in_ in my i386 folder,
except it was named comntwks.in_. After downloading the file from the link
Kelly gave I took a look at the two files and they were identical. Of course,
after I downloaded that file, I had to expand half a dozen other files from
my i386 folder before I finally could access the menu. Turns out it wasn't
even worth the trouble of all that, but I still appreciate your help.

Thanks again.
-AerieC
 

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