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Can't access anything in control panel.
I can't access anything in my control panel. This is the
pop-up that I get: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to access the item." This is my home computer and this pops up whenever I click on anything thats in the control panel. Please help. I don't know what to do about it. Thank you, Michael |
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Can't access anything in control panel.
Michael,
From the message you report and that you can't access the control panel suggests you may be infected by the CoolWebSearch parasite. See Variant 24. CWS.Control at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp. Download and use CWShredder, merijn's removal tool from either: http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip You may also need to replace control.exe and rundll32.exe with new copies. Control.exe is contained in WIN_16.CAB and Rundll32.exe in WIN_17.CAB of the Win Me cab set and can be restored using MSConfig | General | Extract File ... and following the prompts. The "cab" files are in the Win9x folder on the Win Me CD and/or in a sub-folder of Windows\Options. See MS KB129605 - "HOW TO: Extract Original Compressed Windows Files" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=129605). --? Mike Maltby MS-MVP Michael wrote: I can't access anything in my control panel. This is the pop-up that I get: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to access the item." This is my home computer and this pops up whenever I click on anything thats in the control panel. Please help. I don't know what to do about it. |
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