Control Panel

G

Guest

Control panel will not open. My OS is Vista Home Premium 32 bit. This began
this morning 5/25/07 after my son installed action replay. I deleted the
program and restarted but control panel will still not open. Tried to do a
system restore but it keeps giving me an error that the system restore could
not be completed. Can anyone help me before I throw this computer out the
window (pardon the cliche)?
 
D

Dave

Do a system restore, and select the one before he installed that program

Click on the Start button, and type System Restore... it takes a while to
come up.
 
L

LoneStar

Rachysunshine said:
Control panel will not open. My OS is Vista Home Premium 32 bit. This
began
this morning 5/25/07 after my son installed action replay. I deleted the
program and restarted but control panel will still not open. Tried to do
a
system restore but it keeps giving me an error that the system restore
could
not be completed. Can anyone help me before I throw this computer out the
window (pardon the cliche)?
Click to expand...

OK, now I'm curious. Occasionally, my Control Panel won't open either.
Usually a reboot fixes it, or a System restore. HOWEVER, I found later that
in addition to Control Panel not opening, LOTS of other stuff doesn't
either: my Windows Aero doesn't, most of the MS games won't open, Windows
Update from the taskbar won't open, and the printer won't connect. But I
get great Internet, Office suite works as does most of the rest of my
installations. This all happened suddenly, and I did NOTHING wrong!

So............. in addition to the Control Panel, check to see if ALL you
other stuff is working. Lemme know. Thanks.

EW
 
G

Guest

Tried all those and they all work. All these problems give me such a
headache. I hate vista!
 
G

Guest

You might want to try and do a reinstall of Vista itself.. I know this sounds
like a pain, but might be your only solution to fixing the problem.. Vista is
not bad in fact I like it better than XP (never thought I say that).. Over
time Vista will come out with soulutions to most Vista related problems and
it will work fine.. My other suggestion would be to over see what the son
installs before he does it...
 
L

LoneStar

Rachysunshine said:
Tried all those and they all work. All these problems give me such a
headache. I hate vista!
Click to expand...

Update: I may have found my problem! I had an old flash drive installed in
a USB port that died occasionally. I removed it from the port and for the
past few days my Vista has booted up great. Now.......... how a bad USB
drive can affect opening the Control Panel, etc., is beyond me, but....
whatever works. Stay tuned, and good luck with yours.

EW
 
P

Paul

LoneStar said:
Update: I may have found my problem! I had an old flash drive installed
in a USB port that died occasionally. I removed it from the port and for
the past few days my Vista has booted up great. Now.......... how a bad
USB drive can affect opening the Control Panel, etc., is beyond me,
but.... whatever works. Stay tuned, and good luck with yours.
Click to expand...

Well while I was trying to get Vista to stop showing the cursor wheel all
the time I found that if the internet link was playing up, i.e. the router
lights froze, the machine stopped too. This happened so often over half an
hour I became convinced the machine needed a fluid network connection to
work properly. However since adding RAM this behaviour has gone away.
Vista truly is a strange beast.

Paul
 
L

LoneStar

Paul said:
Well while I was trying to get Vista to stop showing the cursor wheel all
the time I found that if the internet link was playing up, i.e. the router
lights froze, the machine stopped too. This happened so often over half
an hour I became convinced the machine needed a fluid network connection
to work properly. However since adding RAM this behaviour has gone away.
Vista truly is a strange beast.

Paul
Click to expand...

Strange, indeed. But it seems like most of the "problems" with Vista are
really extraneous problems with associated software and hardware. Windows
XP is solid as a rock, and the Vista dudes should have studied this. My
Vista is now solid too, but for how long. My XP has been rock-solid for
years.

I'm looking forward to Vista SP-1 and see what improves.

Must go. Supper is ready...........

EW
 
G

Guest

Does anyone happen to know how to rollback to xp? that just sounds like the
best solution for me. I keep trying all your suggestions but to no avail.
 
G

Guest

I have the SAME problem with Lonstar. My problem, his problem. I dont know
what to do. So microsoft stuff should start helping people with that problem
because i have seen it by a lot of users.
 
N

Neil Harley

xphilip said:
I have the SAME problem with Lonstar. My problem, his problem. I dont know
what to do. So microsoft stuff should start helping people with that problem
because i have seen it by a lot of users.
Click to expand...

It would help if you were to mention what the problem is
 
R

Rock

I have the SAME problem with Lonstar. My problem, his problem. I dont know
what to do. So microsoft stuff should start helping people with that
problem
because i have seen it by a lot of users.
Click to expand...

What problem? You've replied to an ongoing thread but didn't quote any of
the previous content. This is a threaded Usenet newsgroup. Many folks
only have the most recent messages. Best practice is to quote at least part
of the post to which you reply. Better yet post a new post with your issue
including all the details.
 
C

Clearwire Mail

doubledragon5 said:
You might want to try and do a reinstall of Vista itself.. I know this
sounds
like a pain, but might be your only solution to fixing the problem.. Vista
is
not bad in fact I like it better than XP (never thought I say that).. Over
time Vista will come out with soulutions to most Vista related problems
and
it will work fine.. My other suggestion would be to over see what the son
installs before he does it...
Click to expand...

I have this problem too and NOTHING seems to work except a reboot. When
clicking on the Control Panel (desktop shortcut) I get a quick flash, then
nothing. Other stuff doesn't open either, including Vista Aero,
Personalization, printing, some MS games. This happened after owning the
Dell XPS 410 for 7 weeks, after several updates. Perhaps, as you say, a
complete system recovery is the answer, but I wonder....
Hope someone else can provide a clue.
 

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