Can’t Open Add/Remove Programs

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In Control Panel, suddenly cannot open Add/Remove Programs. Message is approximately (I’m away from my own computer now) that file hsta.exe cannot be found. File search confirms that.

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I don’t have a Windows 2000 box any more, but I don’t find hsta.exe in my XP Pro’s WINDOWS directory. A Google search for hsta.exe finds nothing. Could the file in question have been MSHTA.EXE?!

See whether any of these Jerry Schulman Tips assists, particularly 3860…

John

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If John is correct in his supposition about the name, I have three copies on my W2K installation, as shown. (I searched for *ta.exe hence the other non-relevent file). Perhaps you can find a copy in dllcache or …

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Do you have a file called appwiz.cpl
in your C:windows directorysystem32
directory? If so, what happens if you double-click on that?

Also, you may want to try the following from a command prompt:
sfc /purgecache
and then
sfc /scannow

HTH.

NB: You may need your Windows disk to run these successfully.

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