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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.

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No UI error messages, or no Windows Events error messages? – Agent_9191 Sep 30 '10 at 1:14
no UI messages. No idea if there are windows events error messages because I can't open eventvwr – Kevin Sep 30 '10 at 1:21
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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?

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I'm an administrator if that's what you mean. – Kevin Sep 30 '10 at 1:22
Yes that is what I meant. – brandon927 Sep 30 '10 at 1:37
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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.

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Guess I'll try a scan with spybot and see what it finds – Kevin Sep 30 '10 at 1:41
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