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Programs and Features stopped opening [SOLVED]
Programs and Features stopped opening [SOLVED]

Zvi Twersky > 2020-08-28 22:34

I have a shortcut to appwiz.cpl which used to open the "Program and Features" window but for the past few days, it's not opening it. Nothing happens.
When running appwiz.cpl in Windows "run" (WIN-r), it opens fine.
RE: Programs and Features stopped opening

Horst > 2020-08-29 01:43

No problem here with exactly the same favorite.
Running QAP version 10.5.9.3 beta under Windows 10 version 2004
RE: Programs and Features stopped opening

Zvi Twersky > 2020-08-29 01:58

ok fixed it. The path only had appwiz.cpl in it. Don't know why it worked before or if some reason the path used to be the full path and something changed it to the file name only. (This might have been caused by an update to QAP. Maybe in recent versions it was enough to put in the app file name only) I found this out when I just tried to delete and recreate the item and got a warning that I need a path. After adding the full path, C:\Windows\System32\appwiz.cpl it now works.
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