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Guest
I'm having a really strange issue.
I'm well aware the extra steps you have to go to install the Windows 2003
AdminPak on Vista RTM (install via MSI, and then register all the dlls).
This is fine. In fact it was working fine for a few months now.
All of a sudden, I cannot open up any of the MMC snap-ins from the Adminpak
by way of the Start Menu -> Administrative Tools. For some odd reason when I
select any tool that was installed by the Admin Pak (i.e. AD Users and
Computers), NOTHING HAPPENS. It's like I didn't click on anything at all.
I've tried to hold down shift, right click, Run-As to run as administrator.
This also yielded no results. I get no errors or anything. Nothing happens.
If I drill down to where these shortcuts are on the file system
(c:\programdata\microsoft\windows\start menu\Programs\Administrative Tools),
I can double click on the shortcuts with NO PROBLEM. Everything works that
way.
It almost seems as if my start menu is broken with these specific shortcuts.
What in the world is going on here???
I even went as far as to create a new toolbar on my taskbar pointing to the
actual location of the shortcuts mentioned above. This does NOT work either.
Something within Explorer is broken and I have no idea where this could be.
I've uninstalled/reinstalled the AdminPak to no avail.
I hope someone has a fix for this. I can't find anything anywhere.
I'm well aware the extra steps you have to go to install the Windows 2003
AdminPak on Vista RTM (install via MSI, and then register all the dlls).
This is fine. In fact it was working fine for a few months now.
All of a sudden, I cannot open up any of the MMC snap-ins from the Adminpak
by way of the Start Menu -> Administrative Tools. For some odd reason when I
select any tool that was installed by the Admin Pak (i.e. AD Users and
Computers), NOTHING HAPPENS. It's like I didn't click on anything at all.
I've tried to hold down shift, right click, Run-As to run as administrator.
This also yielded no results. I get no errors or anything. Nothing happens.
If I drill down to where these shortcuts are on the file system
(c:\programdata\microsoft\windows\start menu\Programs\Administrative Tools),
I can double click on the shortcuts with NO PROBLEM. Everything works that
way.
It almost seems as if my start menu is broken with these specific shortcuts.
What in the world is going on here???
I even went as far as to create a new toolbar on my taskbar pointing to the
actual location of the shortcuts mentioned above. This does NOT work either.
Something within Explorer is broken and I have no idea where this could be.
I've uninstalled/reinstalled the AdminPak to no avail.
I hope someone has a fix for this. I can't find anything anywhere.