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When I double click CP (Editor's guess: Control Panel), I have to wait for it to open for several seconds whilst watching a waving torch. How can I repair? I have cleaned, de-malwared, de-virused, defragged etc. This is in Windows XP with plenty of everything.
2011-01-19 11:07:00
Turning off indexing might help. Here is how:Start >>Control Panel>>Double-click Add/Remove Programs>>Click Add/Remove Windows Components>>Uncheck Indexing Services>>Click Next>>click Finish
2011-01-17 03:21:00
Philip,did you try ha14's suggestion and did it work? Please let us know what it did for you. If you found the answer helpful, please 'Like' it. Thank you!
2011-01-13 07:42:00
Hithis reg file will automatically set values and allows you to open control panel in vista and xp system.http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/controlpanelrestrictionrestore.regsome tools of this site can also help you with your XPhttp://www.dougknox.com/index.html
2011-01-24 14:22:00
Thanks for your interest, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, I couldn't change anything, so am still at square one! However, I found an alternative solution which I recommend you look at: www.vistastartmenu.com This avoids the problem in a very neat way, and is a joy to use.
2011-01-25 07:06:00
Sure another start menu is an alternative. There are some others also but they should be for xp alsoCSMENUhttp://www.csmenu.com/Tidy Start Menu http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtmlAstonMenuhttp://www.aston2menu.com/In order to figure out which Control Panel item is the one causing problems, follow these steps.1.Navigate to “c:/Windows/System32/” (or whatever drive letter contains your Operating System)2.Sort the column by “type”3.Scroll down to the items that show “.cpl” extensions (you may have to enable the viewing of extensions) or look under the Type column for “Control Panel Item”4.Now you start a manual process of double clicking on each control panel item. There are then 2 options: 1.If the Item opens properly, that Item is ok2.If you encounter an error when opening one, that is the Item in question5.Once you have identified the item that is crashing, you can do a series of things: 1.Google the full name of the Item and figure out what it does. Then think back to see if you recently installed something that may use it. You may have to either uninstall what you had installed or find a new item to install on top of it.2.Rename it (e.g., I added a “.bak” extension to it)3.Delete or move it (only do this if you know what the Item is and if you plan on replacing it somehow)6.Once you delete, rename or replace the item, try opening up the Control Panel again. If it still crashes, you may have another item or some other type of problem. If the Control Panel opens successfully, you are good to go.