The COO of our company had a mysterious issue. When working in an application such as outlook, it would crash if we tried to use a drop down menu. I then also noticed that in the event viewer there was an error with user32.dll. I researched the issue with M$ and a bunch of forums. Some users said that their display properties tab was missing and sure enough… The tabs were missing from the COO’s laptop.
Below is a simple fix.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity processorArchitecture="*" version="5.1.0.0" type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Shell.shell32"/> <description>Windows Shell</description> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" processorArchitecture="*" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly>
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1. Save the file as “WindowsShell.Manifest” to your %SystemRoot% folder (Usually this would be c:\windows).
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