control panel dissapeared from menu

[Guest]

I have a problem, my control panel and everything under it has dissapeared
from my start/menu.So I can no longer remove programs.
If I go to start, I have the option,'set program access and defaults' if I
click this I get an error message appearing saying, 'this operation has been
cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer,.please contact your
system administrator.

I am the only person who uses this pc, it's windows xp, home edition and I
didnt start up an administrater account when I got the computer.

Is there anything I can do to get my control panel back?
I even tried system restore and restored computer to an earlier time when
everything was as it should be, but even that doesn't bring back the control
panel.

I hope someone can help me sort this out, any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks guys

Tabbs

 

[Mark Ritchie]

Hey,

You've probably got some malware on your machine that set control panel
access to don't show.

Check the following keys in your registry

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
Control Panel]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\ Control Panel] Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 =
disable restriction, 1 = enable restriction)

If either of them is set to 1 that's your restriction.
I just had the same thing on a clients machine a couple days ago. It did
show up in Hijack this, so if you get a copy of that and run it you can
probably fix it easily through HJT.

Let me know if you need any more help with this.



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Mark Ritchie
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[Wesley Vogel]

To open the Control Panel...
Start | Run | Type: control | Click OK

To get the Control Panel back on your Start Menu.

Right click the Start button | Properties | Start Menu tab |
Customize button | Advanced tab | Under Control Panel, select
Display as a link or Display as a menu | Click OK | Click Apply |
Click OK

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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