Control Panel does not work

[Guest]

I am running Vista basic, and when I try to go into Control Panel, a message
comes up saying that Windows Explorer has stopped working, and then explorer
restarts. It does not get into the control panel at all. This happened once
before, and I formatted the hard drive and started from scratch to rectify
the problem It was fine for a couple of weeks, but now I have the same
problem again. I do keep up to date with Windows update. Please help!!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Open the Run command (Win + R) type in SFC /SCANNOW and click Enter,

 

[John Inzer]

I am running Vista basic, and when I try to go into Control Panel, a
message comes up saying that Windows Explorer has stopped working,
and then explorer restarts. It does not get into the control panel at
all. This happened once before, and I formatted the hard drive and
started from scratch to rectify the problem It was fine for a couple
of weeks, but now I have the same problem again. I do keep up to
date with Windows update. Please help!!

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If you have Nero InCD installed...the following
article may be useful:

(936686) Icons are missing from Control Panel,
or you cannot start Control Panel, the Welcome
Center, or games in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936686/en-us

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