Curious, as that doesn't happen in a workgroup environment. Does it still
occur when you log onto the local machine as admin?
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"Edward Ray" <ewray@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Seems to be a bug. Administrative Tools opens fine, and their are no GPO
> settings that I know of which would prevent the Control Panel window from
> opening. Vista RC1 running in a windows 2003 R2 native active directory
> domain.
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> CCIE Security, CISSP, GCIA Gold, GCIH Gold, MCSE+Security, PE
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