re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Monday, November 12, 2007 at 10:48 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jj (1 messages posted) I have a similar issue.... control, panel, add remove programs, etc... all gone... get message... "operation has been cancelled (note spelling error)...." ran adaware 2007... and removed a lot of files, but the relevant ones couldn't be removed.... getting pop-ups and can't access any administrator privileges! help! On Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 1:35 pm, Matt wrote: >Go to Start, then run, and type "msconfig" and look at the "Services" and "Startup" >tabs. You're looking for WinavXX.exe, or something along those lines. That's spyware. >Had the same problem about a week ago, but LiveOneCare got rid of it for me (I'm >on XP). You could try the Trend Micro online scan. There are others, but that's the >easiest. > >There should be two processes, WinavXX being one of them (can't remember the name >of the other one). > >Then try to enable the Control Panel as you did before. > >If you want to re-enable Regedit, use your 3rd party reg explorer and go to: > >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\System > >Then change the value of 'DisableRegistryTools' to 0, and change 'DisableTaskMgr' >to 0 if haven't already. > >GL Written in response to: re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Matt: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 1:35 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Sean: Tue, Oct 2, 2007, 11:33 pm) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (DEX: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 8:15 am) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Matt: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 1:35 pm) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (jj: Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 10:48 am) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (Jerry: Tue, Nov 13, 2007, 12:26 pm) re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! (melissa: Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 10:35 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum