Date: 09/06/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, google

I recently had a serious virus infection and after running AVG, Spybot, and Ad-Aware in both regular and safe mode about 300,000 times, I finally managed to get rid of it. The only problem is that my control panel is now missing and I can't do anything even though from what I can tell, I'm still logged on as System Administrator. If I double click the time in the system tray or even go to Start/Set Program Access and Defaults, it says, "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."

From what I've googled, Spybot can change some of these things if ran in advanced mode. The only problem is that I never ran it in advanced mode until after my control panel went missing and I've learned the quirky things that Spybot can do.

Does anyone know how I can get my control panel back and what, if anything, I can do in Spybot's advanced mode to change these locked settings?

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