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Can't open control panel

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by pcammuso

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I am logged on as an ordinary user on our domain. When I try to open the control panel, I get the hour glass and it will not open, I have to go to task manager and end the process each time. Any thoughts!!

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by techie girl

The ability to access the Control Panel is probably disabled within your registry. If you go into the registry and see the following, you need to enable it again..........

Registry Settings: Key:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network]
Value Name: NoNetSetup
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

Hope this helps........

by viperian

Can you logon as a administrator, when you can and you can open the control panel you have a security rights issue. Probably the rights of CPL files in the %systemroot%\system32 directory are wrong. If you have no access on these files. Control panel stops working.

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