Some Windows item are stubborn

[Mudd]

Having trouble again with some of the Window items not opening, such as "Manage when right clicking on My Computer; in Administrative Tools in Control Panel, Comptuer Management, Even Viewer, etc."

 

Had this trouble once and never could repair it until I did a restore. Now it's here again. Don't want to do a restore and loose things unless I have to. I have a restore program but it is very weak and not dependable.

 

Below is what I get on the items above when I try to open them. Would appreciate suggestions to get around this.

[n8chavez]

That's a very drastic step, so it's best not to do that unless you have to. Have you tried running sfc /scannow? If not try that. Beliw if a reg entry that will add the 'Manage' option to your 'My Computer' context menu.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Manage]

@=hex(2):40,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,\

00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,79,00,63,00,6f,00,6d,00,\

70,00,75,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,34,00,30,00,30,00,00,\

00

"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c

 

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Manage\command]

@=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,\

00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\

65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,\

00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,63,00,6f,00,\

6d,00,70,00,6d,00,67,00,6d,00,74,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,63,00,00,00

 

What happens when you try to activate that option? Anything different?

[hazelnut]

Have you tried running the file associations fix for.msc files here?

 

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

[Mudd]

n8chavez. I agree that is a drastic step. To much so for a beginner like me. Thanks anyway.

 

hazelnut. Thank you for the information. I ran the one for msc. and it has straighten out the few I clicked.

 

Almost glad I had this problem as to learn the fix and where to find it. Thank each of you.

 

n8chavez. Tried SFC earlir and it was of no help.