User icons missing; "Windows cannot open the User Accounts controlpanel"

[Guest Rajah]

Hi, I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP 3, v. 3311.

 

My user icons are no longer appearing on the welcome screen. I can log

in by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del twice and using the Win2K style login. (So

can all the other users.) After I log in, I started up the Control

Panel and double-clicked on "User Accounts," and I get the message

"Windows cannot open the User Accounts control panel."

 

If I check in Documents and Settings, I can still see all the users.

 

Other discussion groups make it sound like a re-install is in order.

Before I go to that extreme, I am wondering if there are any other

thoughts about it?

 

-Rajah

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: User icons missing; "Windows cannot open the User Accounts control panel"

 

Re: User icons missing; "Windows cannot open the User Accounts control panel"

 

 

"Rajah" <rajah.chacko@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:ebd504e3-4e69-4d0b-a9d6-631d69b4d6be@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> Hi, I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP 3, v. 3311.

>

> My user icons are no longer appearing on the welcome screen. I can log

> in by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del twice and using the Win2K style login. (So

> can all the other users.) After I log in, I started up the Control

> Panel and double-clicked on "User Accounts," and I get the message

> "Windows cannot open the User Accounts control panel."

>

> If I check in Documents and Settings, I can still see all the users.

>

> Other discussion groups make it sound like a re-install is in order.

> Before I go to that extreme, I am wondering if there are any other

> thoughts about it?

>

> -Rajah

 

You could use System Restore to return the machine to a point

just before this problem became apparent.

[Guest Rajah]

Re: User icons missing; "Windows cannot open the User Accountscontrol panel"

 

Re: User icons missing; "Windows cannot open the User Accountscontrol panel"

 

>

> You could use System Restore to return the machine to a point

> just before this problem became apparent.

 

Thanks, your suggestion worked. I rolled back to last week and things

are working again. I was kinda wondering what was causing these

symptoms. I suppose it was an update that was applied.