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Question

Why is administrative tools not showing?

Oct 11, 2013 9:34AM PDT

When clicking administrative tools in control panel it says location not available. The other icons in control panel work. Did it get moved or can it be added back in? Thanks

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Clarification Request
I think I know this one.
Oct 11, 2013 11:52AM PDT

Not the fix but a cause. I got a call about something "like this" but the error message you gave looks incomplete. Th client had used a pc optimizer with registry cleaning. So in the end we reinstalled the OS because it was so deeply damaged.
Bob

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That could be it
Oct 11, 2013 1:56PM PDT

I'll do a repair install.

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Maybe
Oct 11, 2013 8:23PM PDT

But the error message looks incomplete. Try this on google to see if it has prior discussions.

Windows 8 your error message.
Bob

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I did the repair install
Oct 11, 2013 10:41PM PDT

and it brought administrative tools back. Thanks for your help.

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Hopefully you know why this happened.
Oct 12, 2013 1:19AM PDT

Good it's fixed.
Bob