Add/remove Programs Missing from Control Panel

[beerman]

HELP!!!

I've just noticed when I wanted to get rid of a program that my add/remove prorams was missing from the control panel. I thought it was a setting in tweak UI but I checked and unfortunatly was wrong. I'm running Windows 2000, any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Beerman

[Russ247]

First, to check whether the Add/Remove applet is alive and well, go to Start>Run, type in "appwiz.cpl" (without the quotes) and click OK (or press Enter).

If the Add/Remove applet starts, then it's a problem with the shortcuts. The easiest and most immediate way to fix it is to go to C:\Windows\System32 folder, find the appwiz.cpl file and put a shortcut to it somewhere handy.

If it doesn't start, you can try replacing it with a new copy through System File Checker. Rather than running the whole SFC routine, you can go to Start>Run, type in "msconfig" (without the quotes), click OK and on the General tab, click the "Expand File" button. Tell it you want to extract appwiz.cpl, tell it to extract it from either C:\I386 or your Win2K CD (which you'll need to put in the CD drive) and tell it to extract it to C:\Windows\System32.

[beerman]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I tried what you said and it loads from start\run so i'll just leave it in the list of recently accessed stuff

Cheers
Beerman

[the.insane]

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