I'm at a school, and I have a classroom full of computers which are in very
bad shape. One of the more critical ones problems are:

Control Panels will not start - I cannot open anything in the Control Panel,
I double-click, and nothing happens, with the exception of Add/Remove
Programs.

Msconfig - I cannot get this, and many other Run: dialog options to work.

Badly fragmented hard drive - The drive will not defrag. Even after running
the Windows defrag, and several third party defraggers, the drive remains at
96.5% fragmentation.

I think I need to do a repair install, but I do not have access to a Windows
2000 CD. I've expended my computer knowledge, and I'm hoping someone out
there will know what's going on, and possibly some way to help.

Are you a student at school? I'm guessing the computers
are locked down tightly to keep people from changing
standard settings, downloading things, etc. Try
contacting the IT Department and bringing the condition of
the computers (fragmented, etc) to their attention.

If you are a student, you shouldn't be able to do changes
to the system. Then, this is not the place for thar
questions.

If you are not a student, you are a Idiot. This place is
not for you

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:15:26 -0700, "bob9000" <nmhays@swbell.net>
wrote:

You can't run MSConfig in Win2K. Many of the Win2K commands are
different from their Win98 counterparts.

And I would suspect that the reason you can't access anything in the
control panel has to do with some group policy settings. Are you
logged in as someone with administrative privledges?

-Jessica

Very helpful...