Unable to open Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel

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HI

all of a sudden I cannot open Unable to open Add or Remove Programs in the
Control Panel. In fact a number of of items fail to open, such as:

Add Hardware
Mouse
Speech

and a number of others. What is going on? Can anyone help?

Thanks
 
Thanks

That alowed me to remove what I needed, but I still cannot get into it via
the control panel!
 
Hi

That allowed me to remove the programmes ok, thanks, but I cannot not access
via the control panel. Any further ideas?

THanks
 
See if this helps (although you don't get any error message):

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arpwc.htm

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Click Start => Run and type in "regedit" {without the quotes}
Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

In the right-hand pane, delete all the Values whose data value is set
to "no"
 
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