Lost My Administrative Abilities And Control Panel
Sep 22, 2007
I must have clicked on something online before i knew it i had trojan downloaders 'generic 7.rnn' on my system. Avg free version healed most of what it could find which was about 3 threats: autorun.exe, printer.exe and one other.Further scans are revealing nothing now and i've lost all my admin abilities. I go for a basic run command into the control panel e.g 'control access.cpl' and i get a message saying 'this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer, please contact your system administrator. The control panel has dissappeared too.
I have spent 14 hours trying to get this mess off my computer and get my life back.This warning screen popped up as you know after I got blasted by a porn page and had shut my computer completely off and rebooted.I did not download the spyware offered but something still got in.Lost the control panel and had restricted access to certain things.After many hours went into control panel through another user and was able to do a few things.I found a site that had a control panel fix and did get that restored on main user but everything is slow and not running right.I have also run Xoftspy, prevx, spybot,and spyhunter.I have run Norton none of which has solved the problem.
I was have a choice to switch in my control panel fron classic view to category view.When i update my pc i lost that choice and showing folders in "my computer" had been changed too.I try to restore the system but i faild.Is there a way to get it back?
I have lost the "Backgrounds" tab in the control panel display area. Now I'm stuck with a bright blue background and can't seem to get rid of it, even when I right click on a photo and pick "Save as Background". Can someone suggest a remedy?
I want a single desktop click to enable/disable windows XP taskbar auto hide.I can do this if I write a script for the AutoHotkey macro tool to open the relevant dialog box and then check or uncheck the appropriate check box.I'd like to open the dialog box with a command line from AutoHotkey, or a similar operation. Right-clicking the taskbar even in the program is uncool.The catch is, I can execute any CP dialog EXCEPT this one as a command line, either passing a dialog parameter to Control.exe or else using a *.cpl file name with Control.exe or directly. But I can't find "Taskbar and Start Menu".
I have lost my control panel function. When I click on "control panel" I get the message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.My PC is not networked with any other equipment.
I can not get a photo or anything other than a "color" to be my desktop wallpaper. When I am in the control panel - display - the only buttons that are active are the "browse" and "color" buttons. The "position" button does not work. I can't even get one of the Windows backgrounds to display. The photo I choose to use is there somewhere because it is visible briefly when I start mycomputer. Then it disappears and is replaced by a "color" only screen.This is a very recent problem. I'm guessing some settings are incorrect.
I accidently posted this in "Vista" so I'm reposting it here as the operating system I have is XP Professional. I'm having a problem with "Display" in the Control Panel. Yesterday I visited a website and opened a file. After I did that, my wallpaper changed and it appeared to be whatever the website was. I was able to somehow get it off (don't ask me what I did, I couldn't tell you). Now, when I click on "Display" in the Control Panel and go to "Desk Top", the only thing that I can change is the color and I can also click on "Customize Desktop", but I cannot change the background or click on browse...".
When I try to open "Control Panel" it gives me an error dialog box that says Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. "Control Panel" has been taking longer and longer to load, but now it just stops. Running Windows XP Service Pack 2.
We recently downloaded a number of critical updates from MS. I didn't notice that ie7 was included in the list and installed it. We all dislike ie7 and would like to return to ie6, Can I just install/uninstall ie7 through control panel and ie6 will come back? Or will this leave me with no ie at all.
My control panel has disappeared and I can't fix it even though I've run AVG anti-virus and Spybot Search & Destroy. I'm also getting the following pop-up (with misspellings).Warning! Potential Spyware Operation!Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. Run full scan now to prevent any unathorised access to your files! Click YES to download spyware remover.
I un-installed a program (The Weather Channel) from the add & remove Programs and all other locations, including Icons have been deleted, excepting the Icon in the Control Panel. When I right click to open, an error #126 comes up stating (could not get local SMS.INI for current machine).Is it possible to delete thiss icon ? My OS is XP
how to install IIS with an executable instead of going to control panel, add remove programs, windows compents. I want to add it to a batch file that I run to install applications. I would just add it to the XP Install build script but I dont want it on every machine.
I run Windows xp sp2, I often use hibernation option, recently I am unable to do this. When I go into power options in the control panel the hibernation tab is missing, also in the turn off computer options in the start menu the standby tab is greyed out
Recently, my XP Pro SP3 Control panel started opening upon Windows startup. I've found no one on the Net who has this problem, and have no idea how to stop this behavior.
When I attempt to make any selection in my Control Panel such as Add/Remove programs etc, a DOS screen pops up along with a dialogue box that reads like this: 16 Bit MS-DOS Subsystem C:WindowsSystem32 undll32.exe The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS: 0000 IP: 0077 OP:fo 37 05 0c 02 Choose 'close' to terminate the application Trying to reinstall WindowsXP from the original CD fails and just gives me an error message telling me it can't install because I have a newer version of Windows. Can someone help me with the best course of action to take? I need my computer for a job search and it is getting more unstable all the time. Also, I get two of these same DOS screens with the same error message at startup. I would really appreciate some help. Now, here is what someone at another forum told me to do that didn't work, unfortunately:
I have not been able to get into my control panel for quite some time now. Every time I try to get in, I get the "Windows has encountered an error and must close the program error" I really need to get into my control panel to remove some programs.thought? I am running windows xp
I have lost a number of Sounds in my Window XP sp3. My Start Up Sounds, the Recyle Bin (Empting) gone? I GO TO THE CONTROL PANEL AND THE OPTIONS UNDER (SOUNDS AND DEVICES) HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW DELETED? I USED MY (XP INSTALLATION0 DISC AND PERFORMED A (REPAIR) HOPING TO RESTORE THE (DEFAULT SOUNDS OFFERED IN XP)?
I have read a response to an question already posted that Bluetooth devices does not appear in the control panel until a device has been to the machine.
I'm trying to change my screensaver, I get a error message saying; "Your system Administrator disabled the Display Control Panel." I am the System Administrator. I need to find a way to enable it again.
For some reason when I go to Control Panel before it opens I get the message :An ERROR Occurred While Windows was working with the Control Panel File. C:WINDOWSSystem32Netsetup.cpl. I Googled it an found I could resolve it by RUN>MsConfig>Start Up and Unchecking IPMon32.So I just like to know exactly what this is and if it can cause any probs.by disabling it.
I am trying to remove "juno" from add/remove in control panel. nothing happens when i hit change/remove. i can remove other programs easily except this one.
my problem is i have no control panel and cant get my desktop propertise also my clock in the bottom right hand corner of my toolbar cant be changed when i try to get desktop propertise i get this error message "this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. please cantact your system administrator
my folder icon in contol panel is not present . how can i back my folder icon in cotrol panel.also folder option in tools menu of directory is also not present.how can i see hidden files in my system.
I have moved my laptop from my office environment and try to start it up. Windows xp starts normally, I can log on normally. But there are no access to any applications or to control panel etc. Everything gives a message with "not responding".
I'm attempting to use unistall wizard in the control panel, but it's not cooperating.This is a new problem as it has always performed well in the past.
I keep getting what I believe is a fake windows security alert, which reads: Warning! Potential Spyware Operation! Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. I cannot access Control Panel. Cannot print and the computer does not recognize me as the administrator.
from the desktop or from the Start menu. explorer.exe randomly consumes 100% cpu usage and has to be shut down from task manager or a reboot. Sometimes after ending the explorer.exe process, I get the "send/dont' send" error report option to Microsoft. Norton & Windows Defender found nothing, and ad-aware SE hangs.
