I was wondering if anyone else has had a problem with Vista Service Pack 1 RC 1 where after it installs, a few days later the Control Panel and everything else disappears and when you try to open the Control Panel..... it tries to open but then closes itself.
I have also noticed that since this started happening I cannot print to a computer (IE7 locks up when I tell it to print), the Networking and Sharing page is broken, and I cannot get directly to the Control Panel plugins either.
I honestly think that I did this to myself and that this is not a problem with Vista 1RC1 however. I went poking into places in my Windows folder that I was thinking to myself "I should not be doing this, but I am running out of hard drive space....." and I think I deleted something that was important and caused this problem myself.
I am also getting a Blue Screen driver thing when it starts up every now and again, which seems to be connected to this problem with the Control Panel. The computer that is having this problem has anti-virus software and anti-malware software on it, so I do not think that it has a virus or malware on it (have scanned with Spybot, Ad-Aware, Norton Internet Security, Windows OneCare Online Safety Scanner, and a few other things: haven't found anything).
Does anyone have a way that I can fix this problem without having to go to the 'clean install' route (have a lot of stuff I don't want to lose on my hard drive, and I don't have an external one that I can move the important stuff to) which the 'upgrade install' is disabled with my Windows Vista Install Disc since I installed Service Pack 1 and it knows that a newer installation is installed.
I have used the Upgrade install to fix a few problems before on my computer, and it worked fine, so I am thinking I shot myself in the foot with installing the Service Pack 1 RC 1 because I now cannot get to the Uninstall menu to uninstall it.
I have also noticed that since this started happening I cannot print to a computer (IE7 locks up when I tell it to print), the Networking and Sharing page is broken, and I cannot get directly to the Control Panel plugins either.
I honestly think that I did this to myself and that this is not a problem with Vista 1RC1 however. I went poking into places in my Windows folder that I was thinking to myself "I should not be doing this, but I am running out of hard drive space....." and I think I deleted something that was important and caused this problem myself.
I am also getting a Blue Screen driver thing when it starts up every now and again, which seems to be connected to this problem with the Control Panel. The computer that is having this problem has anti-virus software and anti-malware software on it, so I do not think that it has a virus or malware on it (have scanned with Spybot, Ad-Aware, Norton Internet Security, Windows OneCare Online Safety Scanner, and a few other things: haven't found anything).
Does anyone have a way that I can fix this problem without having to go to the 'clean install' route (have a lot of stuff I don't want to lose on my hard drive, and I don't have an external one that I can move the important stuff to) which the 'upgrade install' is disabled with my Windows Vista Install Disc since I installed Service Pack 1 and it knows that a newer installation is installed.
I have used the Upgrade install to fix a few problems before on my computer, and it worked fine, so I am thinking I shot myself in the foot with installing the Service Pack 1 RC 1 because I now cannot get to the Uninstall menu to uninstall it.