System Control Panel Error

[BryanChung]

Hi,

I am asking this question on behalf of my friend. He is on WinME and he has this problem (as attached) when he opens the control panel and click on either one component (eg. Mouse), basically anything in the control panel.

I got a feeling it's due to some security settings. But because I am not a Windows ME user, I do not now how to help him.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance.

:)

[Sophism]

go ahead and get him a nice shiny copy of anything but winme...

thats ur problem right there...

but to answer you is he an administrator?

[BryanChung]

Apparently he does not know. Is there a way to set himself as Admin? From Safe Mode?

[BryanChung]

Apparently he went into Safe Mode and still cannot access the control panel for the same reason. He was not given the option to login as Admin or whatsoever.

[beanboy89]

  bryan09 said:

He was not given the option to login as Admin or whatsoever.

Windows ME does not have Admin accounts.

[BryanChung]

So what can the error be?

[Aeonandromere]

The question is not what to fix but what to do now. Now that WinME has failed on him he has two options, buy Windows 2000, XP switch to Linux or use another OS, OR Reformat and pray it doesnt happen again.

[Slimy]

  tuwoa said:

go ahead and get him a nice shiny copy of anything but winme...

thats ur problem right there...

so true

winme is the worst version to date

[PseudoRandomDragon]

He probably got some virus/trojan that has used a registry trick to disable access to the control panel. There is such a thing as policy editor for WinME/98

[BryanChung]

So it's recommend to reinstall I suppose?

[freaky]

that would be really good and that way you can see if you got a courrpted WINME Or not....why not?? its fun!! haha

[Joe User 99]

Replace the file rundll32.exe with a new copy extracted from Windows ME OS CD.

And since there is no DOS in ME, it would be easiest to do it from a floppy with CD support

[PseudoRandomDragon]

One would think that from my post you would think to scan for viruses or... use the policy editor. But no.

[Joe User 99]

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One would think that from my post you would think to scan for viruses or... use the policy editor. But no.

One might think, but considering it won't help, it doesn't matter. :p

I've seen this one before.

I posted the fix. All he has to do is try it.

[dmeags]

  bryan09 said:

So it's recommend to reinstall I suppose?

I vote format and reinstall