my control panel "died" on me on CATEGORY VIEW

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first of all, I have WinXP Pro with SP2 installed. I just format the hard
drive on Monday (Nov 15th). First I installed everything for Windows (from
the OS itself, then all the updates from windowsupdate.microsoft.com), then
the drivers, then Zone Alarms firewall, Norton Antivirus 2003, then
everything else (programs, games, etc).

some people in a forum I belonged to tried to help with no "real" result
until now. one person suggested that I should remove SP2 (which I almost
did), another person suggested to remove other things, and so on.

but well, anyway, here's what happened so far:

- one member of the forum suggested that HP (I have an HP all-in-one)
software is buggy. I uninstalled the whole software and the driver, even
cleaning up the registry entries, and the control panel still plays dead.
- another member told me that most of the time NVidia drivers that comes
with WinXP are 90% incorrect. I've downloaded the drivers & programs from
NVidia website and installed them. nothing changed, control panel still plays
dead.
- I can access each one of the CONTROL PANEL applets from system32 folders
and every single one works fine (I can click on each button available and
able to go back & forth)
- I already run a adware remover program (as the matter of fact, I run the
program daily) and found nothing beside leftover cookies after browsing
- I tried clicking on each option available in the CATEGORY VIEW and comes
up with a list of which option works and which one don't.

the ones that works fine (getting in & out, click this & that without
problems) are: Add/Remove Programs, Security Center, User Account.

the ones that "half" working (I can click on it but the CP hung in the next
screen after that first click) are: Performance & Maintenance, Date Time
Language & Regional Setting, Sound Speech & Audio Devices, Network & Internet
Connection, Appearance & Themes.

the ones that aren't clickable & make the CP hung by clicking the options
are: Accessibility Option, Printers & Other Hardware.



so, anybody with any "possible" explanation/solution, please kindly reply to
this thread or email me directly at (e-mail address removed).

thank you very much for your time to read my thread.
 
gysca said:
first of all, I have WinXP Pro with SP2 installed. I just format the hard
drive on Monday (Nov 15th). First I installed everything for Windows (from
the OS itself, then all the updates from windowsupdate.microsoft.com), then
the drivers, then Zone Alarms firewall, Norton Antivirus 2003, then
everything else (programs, games, etc).

some people in a forum I belonged to tried to help with no "real" result
until now. one person suggested that I should remove SP2 (which I almost
did), another person suggested to remove other things, and so on.

but well, anyway, here's what happened so far:

- one member of the forum suggested that HP (I have an HP all-in-one)
software is buggy. I uninstalled the whole software and the driver, even
cleaning up the registry entries, and the control panel still plays dead.
- another member told me that most of the time NVidia drivers that comes
with WinXP are 90% incorrect. I've downloaded the drivers & programs from
NVidia website and installed them. nothing changed, control panel still plays
dead.
- I can access each one of the CONTROL PANEL applets from system32 folders
and every single one works fine (I can click on each button available and
able to go back & forth)
- I already run a adware remover program (as the matter of fact, I run the
program daily) and found nothing beside leftover cookies after browsing
- I tried clicking on each option available in the CATEGORY VIEW and comes
up with a list of which option works and which one don't.

the ones that works fine (getting in & out, click this & that without
problems) are: Add/Remove Programs, Security Center, User Account.

the ones that "half" working (I can click on it but the CP hung in the next
screen after that first click) are: Performance & Maintenance, Date Time
Language & Regional Setting, Sound Speech & Audio Devices, Network & Internet
Connection, Appearance & Themes.

the ones that aren't clickable & make the CP hung by clicking the options
are: Accessibility Option, Printers & Other Hardware.



so, anybody with any "possible" explanation/solution, please kindly reply to
this thread or email me directly at (e-mail address removed).

thank you very much for your time to read my thread.
Click to expand...

just remembered that this had happened to me while WinXP was still on
SP1(a). I get around the "dead" control panel by downloading the hotfix
update one by one and keep checking on the CP if it died or not. of course,
by now, I can't remember which fix goes before which.
 
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