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I'm having a problem where I can't run mmc.exe or any of the programs that depend on it. (services.msc, eventvwr.msc, etc) If I try to open any of these things, the mouse flickers for a second and then disappears. If I have task manager running, I can see the mmc.exe pop up in the list of process for about half a second then it goes away. No error messages or anything. Anybody have an idea on what could cause this or how to fix it.
Kevin
Posted 2010-09-30T00:41:29.310
Reputation: 109
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It could be a problem with Windows itself, or you could be infected with some sort of malware blocking any core utilities from running. Have you tried running them in Administrative mode?
brandon927
Posted 2010-09-30T00:41:29.310
Reputation: 1 039
I'm an administrator if that's what you mean. – Kevin – 2010-09-30T01:22:45.593
Yes that is what I meant. – brandon927 – 2010-09-30T01:37:30.770
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I had a couple machines at the college where I work do this in the last two months. In both cases is was a malware infection that took out the task manager as well.
Joel Coehoorn
Posted 2010-09-30T00:41:29.310
Reputation: 26 787
Guess I'll try a scan with spybot and see what it finds – Kevin – 2010-09-30T01:41:25.150
No UI error messages, or no Windows Events error messages? – Agent_9191 – 2010-09-30T01:14:10.930
no UI messages. No idea if there are windows events error messages because I can't open eventvwr – Kevin – 2010-09-30T01:21:27.233