Why administrative tools is empty

It appears on the Start Menu but is empty. What did I miss????????? Premium Supporter. Hi ruggb , sorry to hear you got problems again please try this link: Administrative Tools - Restore Shortcuts - Windows 7 Forums. It appears to me that the article ref above is not entirely accurate. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the hidden system folder below.

Yup thanks for that ruggb. I just pulled it from the web so apologies for not reading it through first.. Folks that try to answer questions in these forums have to assume your install has not been altered. You appear to say you moved files from their original location, which is not a normal action, but did bother to include that extremely pertinent info in your post.

Click to expand Since I did not want all users to access the admin tools, I moved them all over to my profile. Last edited: May 29, I have similar troubles with AT. The second address is simply a very hidden in NTFS, btw shortcut to the former. The former is the real thing. It showed then up as AT not xATx until reboot. My better solution was to make a copy of the AT, named AT - copy. Generally, the Programs folder of the start menu is fragile in Windows 7.

Plus there are some extra tools which are not displayed by default. If you have similar problems again, right click on a similar program or file to the one you are missing and browse to its location. Worth a shot. Component Services. You had a couple that i could not find that's normal I guess I wonder if somebody else had another list with a few other things on it.

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But there are chances that you still end up with non-working Windows control panel. One such issue we had recently faced was, administrative Tools stops working in control panel as well as start menu. Every time when we attempt to open Administrative Tools in control panel, we ended up getting empty folder as shown in below screenshot. Download Windows 7 Administrative Tools Zip file from here works for both bit and bit. Right click on each shortcut icon and click on Unblock button, do this for each and every shortcut present inside the Administrative Tools folder, if you dont see unblock option then probably it is already unblocked.

Assuming you have installed windows on C: drive, if you have installed on any other drive then make sure to change drive later in above path. And past copied folder to above path, you may get folder replace confirmation window. Press on continue button for Administrator permission and also click on yes when you get User Account Control warning. Here is video tutorial on how to fix empty Administrative Tools folder in control panel ,.

Thanks SevenForums.