For some reason I can not run Add/Remove Programs from the control panel. There's a bit of hard disk activity but no interface screen appears. The program does not appear in the task list. All other programs in control panel do however work. How can I get this back as there are programs that only appear there that I can remove properly. Regards

Gary : it takes some time (on my laptop) to get the Add/Remove Programs : i think this has -for some reason- a low priority in W2K. i would defrag first and then look what is happening then. i donot see it in the applications tab of Task manager either. Is it the Winmngt.ex process in the processes tab ?? How much free space on Hd you have ? Good luck Theo.

Free Disk space is currently at about 40gb on a 60gb hard drive. I'll try and be a bit more patient and wait for something to happen but it used to appear in a reasonable time when it was working. Thanks Gary

I have the same problem. Also, Internet Explorer 5.5 won't work. The windows comes up but no url will load and I cannot access any menu items. No error messages show up. I can use Opera and Netscape. My Office 2000 Programs also work. I tried to reload IE but got the following error: urlmon.dll is "missing". Could be related to the above problems.

Gary: I have the axact same problem. I click the cion i the control panel, but nothing happens. I checked the task manager and a process shows up. The process is "mshta.exe" and resides in the WINNT/System32/ catalog. I looked at properties on the file and it says "Microsoft (R) HTML Application host". I wonder what that has to do with removing programs... I have no idea how to fix this though :-( I'll post here if I find something.

I have the same problem as well and I ran across this help article on the Microsoft Knowledgebase...perhaps this might help..I'm trying it now and will let you know... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q265829%26dialogID%3d3660410%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c3247391

I started receiving the winmngt.exe error after I installed Visio 2002. I am currently researching what caused this (or rather how to correct it). I will check back here for additional findings and note what I discovered.