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    Where'd my admin tools go?!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Scavar, Sep 15, 2007.

  1. Scavar

    Scavar Notebook Evangelist

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    So I find this neat thread about Vista tweaks, of course some of these things ive already done, but the very first one I haven't. So I go to do it right: control panel>admin options>task scheduler....It's for disabling TMM. Anyways, I go there...and low and behold, I don't have any admin options, or tools.

    Which is strange. I'm the only user on here, I'm an admin, and I've never touched anything that would have broken that. Hell I've been in those options before. I've even been in the task scheduler.


    So anyone know what happened to my admin tools?
     
    Scavar, Sep 15, 2007
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    I have them. If you deposit 38 cents (in 1951 dollars, adjusted for inflation) into my Paypal account, they will be returned safely via a proxy in southern North Dakota.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 15, 2007
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Seriously, type task scheduler into the Start Search box on the Start Menu and if they are there, they should be found.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 15, 2007
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    Scavar Notebook Evangelist

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    I tried that, nothing. Task Scheduler is on, it's started in services, and they are just no where to be found. It's just strange.
     
    Scavar, Sep 15, 2007
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    This is the shortcut path: %SystemRoot%\system32\taskschd.msc /s
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 15, 2007
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    Scavar Notebook Evangelist

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    Well thanks much, that lets me get to it. My tools still aren't showing up though, but at least I can get to what I needed. Thanks.
     
    Scavar, Sep 16, 2007
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    If you type adm into the Start Search box on the Start Menu they are not there either?
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 16, 2007
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    in xp and vista, administrative tools group is "off" or "hidden" by default. go to start menu properties and you can enable it for all programs menu or all programs menu + start menu
     
    NotebookYoozer, Sep 16, 2007
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    That is true. If you have not turned it on to be displayable, you will not see it easily. I thought I had read in the first post that it had gone missing, but upon re-reading that does not appear to be the case.
     
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    I wasn't speaking about the short cut to the tools in the start menu, I'm talking about in the control panel. I can get to where Admin Tools should be, but when I click on it, there are no options, there are no tools.

    As in the Administrative Tools folder is empty. I know they existed before, becauce I've used them. They did disappear. Searching for adm finds a lot of things, including the empty folder, but none of the tools.
     
    Scavar, Sep 16, 2007
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    qhn, Sep 16, 2007
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    Your search skills are far better then mine....As that has just solved my problem.

    It also pointed me toward the culprit, last time I let a friend download an install programs on my PC -_-

    Thanks a bunch man.
     
    Scavar, Sep 16, 2007
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    fun part of having friends :eek: - glad it helped

    cheers ...
     
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    I routinely customize my Start Menu, so every now and again some rogue uninstall thinks it is still installed they way it wanted to be and removes a whole branch of my start menu. Most mainstream programs are smarter than that thankfully.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 16, 2007
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