Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Control Panel Not Opening in Windows XP

I have heard few times that due to malware infection Contol Panel stops from opening. Following are the keys which usually controls the control panel

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

look for "NoControlPanel" its a DWORD entry and its value should be "00000000"

Second key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

look for "NoControlPanel" its a DWORD entry and its value should be "00000000"

If these keys does not exist then create them.

Restart of machine will read these keys and hopefully it would solve your problem

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot. It works so well. Surprised how there are no comments for this article. It's the best solution I could find on the web. Thanks again.