when i open add/remove programs the applet says

"there are no programs installed on this computer"

but if i scroll down the program list is there ...

if i click on a program it drops it down to the bottom , then i scroll down to see it and the buttons "change" and "remove" are there but greyed out .. this is on all programs ...

any ideas how to remedy the situation ???

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Reinstall MDAC and your problem will be solved. The control panel depends on about 3 dll files, which are part of the w2k mdac default installation.

i downloaded mdac from MS ran the install ... but it says that the version is already on the system and cannot update it ?? is there something i need to do to get it to reinstall ??

thanks for the help !!!

Greatly appreciated !!!

Navigate to the folder c:\windows\inf. Right-click on MDAC.INF and click

"install."

It will recopy the mdac files and reregister some of the basic registry

entries.

When it asks for the Windows XP CDROM, you will need to point it to the i386 directory.

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