Property pages will not display for folders

[Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]]

Windows XP SP1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633)

When I right-click on a folder in Windows Explorer and choose Properties,
the dialog doesn't open. Explorer loses focus as if another window became
active, but nothing appears. It's not hidden behind other windows, either.

I can right-click on a drive or a file and bring up a property page just
fine.

The keyboard shortcut doesn't work either.

I thought that maybe something got hosed in my registry, so I looked up
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers. There's nothing
there. However, I looked on another XP box which is working fine and it
doesn't have any values or subkeys in this key either.

A newsgroup search turned up little except for a couple of people who had
this problem in 2002 and never got any answers.

If there's a better group in which to ask this, please point me to it.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Jeff,

If you have IIS installed, remove and reinstall it.

 

[Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]]

If you have IIS installed, remove and reinstall it.

Funny you should say that. The IIS MMC console won't come up either,
although it creates a process. Many thanks.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

I'm not sure anyone knows why it causes it, but it does............ Seems to be the most common fix as well.

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[Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]]

I'm not sure anyone knows why it causes it, but it does............
Seems to be the most common fix as well.

I wonder why I didn't find much info from a Google group search.

 

[Jim Carlock]

I mistyped (misspelled a word) on a google search the other
day. Maybe it caused the Google servers to crash. I originally
thought the Google servers were broken, because it was
something really easy to find in the newsgroups, but instead
of spelling "find unmatched query access" I accidently typed
"fund unmatched query access" and I was infuriated by the
"not found" message, I tried it ten times real quick and their
servers finally crashed.

Sorry.

But I did start their servers up again, by typing in:
"find umatched query access".

Hope that helps.

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Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
Post replies to the newsgroup.

I'm not sure anyone knows why it causes it, but it does............
Seems to be the most common fix as well.

I wonder why I didn't find much info from a Google group search.