Windows Vista Control Panel will not open!!!

Hello. I came across this forum after doing a google search 'vista
control panel gone'. i already created an account at overclocking.net
(there's another thread there). Guess this is a common vista problem
(that's not making it better).

One thing I haven't seen associated with the control panel problem is a
hangup in booting up the computer. I have a 3.5 month old toshiba
satellite and since saturday morning, it's taking 10 minutes to reboot
each time.

When I realized I should do a system restore, that's when I noticed I
didn't have my control panel.

Does it sound like the two problems are related?

I downloaded ad-aware yesterday hoping that would pick something up and
fix things, but it didn't.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

-dan
DRay9911 (at) gmail (dot) com


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dray9911

I had a similar problem with Windows Vista. The symptoms are:
* Cannot open Control Panel from Start|Control Panel. If you try, it
will flash briefly then close after 5 seconds without displaying any
contents.
* You CAN open Control Panel if you navigate to it from Window
Explorer. All functions are available.
* You cannot right-click on the Desktop and select the Personalize...
option.
* The following services are not startable:
- SL UI Notification cannot be started
- Software Lisensing cannot be started
* Also, Vista may periodically announce that your copy of Vista may be
invalid (i.e.: pirated), and all attempts to confirm its validity will
fail (presumably because of the Software Licensing service problem
above).

I conclude that this is related to video drivers because:
* Another post specifically mentioned this problem with almost all of
the symptoms above as being related to a video driver installation.
* I re-formatted my machine, and afterwards I tried to re-install the
same video driver (in this case, ATI Catalyst Control Center) and it
failed to launch, with Vista citing "This program may be harmful").

How to fix:
* I wiped my machine, but this is of course drastic.
* Other reports suggest getting rid of the offending video driver may
solve the problem. I would suggest trying to find the latest video
driver, which may have resolved its Vista conflict.

Hope this helps,
Jimbo


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