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re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 8:15 am Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here Sound like a job for the Admin. or the IT It's going to take the win2k cd disk to fix this one, so you need to buy one...if you are the Admin. of the machine. Many of the spyware programs will nail the reg.file did you backup your State files b/4 you did a clean up. Fix It Yourself Click Here On Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm, Sean wrote: >I just recently cleared my friend's pc of viruses and lots of spyware. Everything >seems to be clean but now I'm having MAJOR issues. Here's a few things that are occuring: > >1. Control Panel is missing - it's missing from the start menu, and even trying to >access control panel programs from the command prompt brings up a message that state's >"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. >Please contact your system administrator." I have already attempted the popular registry >fix for this problem that says to remove the key NoControlPanel from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer > >I have also tried the gpedit.msc fix, and that has not resolved the problem. > >Next, I cannot access regedit. I get the following message, "Registry editing has >been disabled by your administrator." I had to download a 3rd party registry editor >to gain access to the registry. > >Next, while attempting to install Ad-aware 7 I get a message about the Windows Installer >could not be accessed. > >Finally, when logging into windows normally (not in safe mode like I was doing for >the above tests), navigating to the Program Files folder and the Winnt folder shows >just an empty folder, but you can see the number of files in the folder in the status >bar. The icons are completely gone! > >I realize this might be one of those "oh just reinstall windows 2000", but this is >not an option for me because I do not have access to a windows 2000 pro installation >disc. > >Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 1:35 pm Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Monday, November 12, 2007 at 10:48 am 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 12:26 pm Posted by Jerry (934 messages posted) This has the earmarks of the "Winavx" trojan. It's always difficult to know what to do in these cases -- try to clean up the OS, or just reinstall it fresh. Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!! Monday, December 3, 2007 at 10:35 am Posted by melissa (1 messages posted) Hi Sean....wondering if you got anywhere with this problem....It appears my computer is inflicted with the same thing...any suggestions on what worked best would be appretiated...thankx On Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm, Sean wrote: >I just recently cleared my friend's pc of viruses and lots of spyware. Everything >seems to be clean but now I'm having MAJOR issues. Here's a few things that are occuring: > >1. Control Panel is missing - it's missing from the start menu, and even trying to >access control panel programs from the command prompt brings up a message that state's >"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. >Please contact your system administrator." I have already attempted the popular registry >fix for this problem that says to remove the key NoControlPanel from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer > >I have also tried the gpedit.msc fix, and that has not resolved the problem. > >Next, I cannot access regedit. I get the following message, "Registry editing has >been disabled by your administrator." I had to download a 3rd party registry editor >to gain access to the registry. > >Next, while attempting to install Ad-aware 7 I get a message about the Windows Installer >could not be accessed. > >Finally, when logging into windows normally (not in safe mode like I was doing for >the above tests), navigating to the Program Files folder and the Winnt folder shows >just an empty folder, but you can see the number of files in the folder in the status >bar. The icons are completely gone! > >I realize this might be one of those "oh just reinstall windows 2000", but this is >not an option for me because I do not have access to a windows 2000 pro installation >disc. > >Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum