Blank dialog boxes....twist?

[Guest]

I have 3 user accounts on my pc. One is mine, one is my wifes and one for
the kids. The wife and I both belong to the administrators group, the kids
belong to the users group.

The "twist" is that my account works normally, and the other two accounts
have the issues as described in MSKB 831430, "Several dialog boxes are blank".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831430

I tried the fixes in 831430 on my wifes account but it did not work. But I
found this thread,
http://www.techimo.com/forum/showpost.php?s=5faa19a2a9b48613487d4d405f000ba0&p=2166899&postcount=3
and it seemed to fix my wifes account. But now my account has the described
issues.

I also tried resetting the entire registry permissions to defaults using
this procedure,
http://winonline.blogspot.com/2005/11/reset-entire-registry-permissions-to.html
But it seems that whatever user account I am logged into is the one that gets
fixed and the other admin account breaks.

Does anybody have any other suggestions?

Thanks,

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If you have the proper install media for your operating system you might try
a repair install as described in the link below.

Steve

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Guest]

I ended up doing a repair install this afternoon. Painful but I think it did
the trick. Knock on wood...things seem to be working.

Thanks for your time.

Eric

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Good to hear and thanks for reporting back what worked for you.

Steve