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Getting a PLEASE GO TO THE CONTROL
Name: khouston53 Date: November 2, 2003 at 20:14:12 Pacific OS: Windows XP pro CPU/Ram: 384MB
Comment:
Upon going into "My Computer" and clicking on my "C:\" drive, I get an Windows XP Setup window that reads, "Please go to the Control Panel to install and configure system components." I can right click and Explore the drive, but not double-click. Also, the icon is not a drive icon, but a default Windows XP file icon. Any ideas??
Name: khouston53 Date: November 6, 2003 at 06:32:13 Pacific
Reply:
I figured it out. My c:\ drive had a autoplay.inf in the root directory telling it to load an unknown icon. Once I removed that autoplay.inf and rebooted, everything works fine.
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