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by ashton

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The "add/remove Programs" feature no longer works on this PC. I have "Windows2000 Professional" installed. Everything worked fine for some time but now when attempting to use this feature the error message is:

"Object doesn't supportthis property or method rez://appwiz.cpl/default.hta
Line 75".

I have not been able to find the cause of this trouble or to fix it. Help will be appreciated.

This is a Gateway Performance PC with a Pentium 111, 550 processor.

Thank you,

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by don christner

HTA is a file extension commonly used by viruses to make changes to the registry. Update your virus definitions and scan for viruses.

Don

by joseph moore

You need to re-register the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel applet, appwiz.cpl. Something mangled its registration.
So, type this in a Run box:
REGSVR32 APPWIZ.CPL

Then try it.
Default.hta is a Desktop folder HTML template file that Windows uses to paint windows. Amazingly, a lot of the visual display in Win2K is done with HTML!

If you still have a problem, read Technet article Q266668. There are a whole mess of Registry entries for you to check.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q266668
(please remove any spaces)

Hope this helps.

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