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Add/Remove programs broken (Mshta.exe)
Posted by David Stokes on March 7th, 2004




Running Win2K on a Dell Precision workstation.

Original install was using Dell OEM Win2K SP1.

Now running SP4 installed from Express download and all critical
updates also installed plus IE6

Add/Remove programs freezes and always get "Mshta.exe not responding
etc".

Can sometimes shut down with Ctrl +Alt+Del, sometimes not.

According to this KB

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;285195

might work and requires OEM setup CD.

Question:

will this rollback to SP1 and zap all updates, critical fixes etc etc
or do commands

sfc /purgecache
sfc /scannow

just repair "Add/Remove"

Any advice as I just need to know what I'm getting into.


Tks.



David Stokes

Posted by Steve Parry on March 7th, 2004


David Stokes wrote:
try

Start
Run
type

regsvr32 appwiz.cpl

Click OK


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