I have XP SP2. My control panel crashes when I start it. Not immediately, but before I can activate any options within it. It doesnt go away, just freezes and gives error. The "Error Signature" shows:

AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: user32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 0002ec58

Any ideas? I thank you.

Hi Needtoknow,

Wecome to PCHF, we have a wonderful staff of techs here with a wide variety of computer skills, I am sure that we can figure out what is causing your problem.

First of all, can you please follow the instructions from the Prework link in my signature and post back the ewido and HijackThis logs. We can start troubleshooting from there.

Look forward to your reply,

TTFN

LGW

Also give this a try:


go to start / run and in the run window type in:
sfc /scannow >type enter

Have you XP CD in youre drive, and it'll run itself, replacing any missign or damaged protected XP files.