Administrative Tools Disappeared In Windows 10 Pro

Discussion in 'Software' started by mdonah, Mar 30, 2016.

  1. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    I just went to This PC -> Manage and clicked on Disk Management. I got the following:

    Computer Management.jpg

    I checked the folder, and it's empty. How could this happen and what do I need to do to correct it? Everything was there before AFAIK.
     
  2. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    The Administrative Tools section of that path path does not exist in my Win 10 Pro but Disk Management starts fine from the right click Start menu or from Control Panel > Administrative Tools or from This PC > Manage. Do any of the other routes work for you?
     
  3. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Thanks for getting back to me Earthling

    I'll have to check a little later. Right now I'm in Win 10 Enterprise checking for SSDs at Newegg.

    It's really weird. My Administrative Tools are still here in Win 10 Enterprise. I wonder if the most recent cumulative update for version 1511 had anything to do with it or if ASC messed things up?
     
  4. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    Well I would be the last to be surprised if ASC was the culprit. It isn't welcome here.
     
  5. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Well, Administrative Tools is empty in Control Panel too.

    And, that's not all. I lost my Internet Download Manager registration too. It's now blocked in Windows 10 Pro. It looks like I'm going to have to reconstruct the Win 10 Pro partition before my Samsung EVO 850 SSD gets here.

    None of these problems exist on any of my other versions of Windows.

    ???
     
  6. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    Worth trying System Restore?
     
  7. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Tried that immediately after I posted. I had system protection turned on but, there wasn't any space allotted so, there were no restore points. :(

    And I think I found the problem with IDM. On one of the drives, I brought up About for IDM. I thought I purchased a registration in May of last year. Turns out I purchased it Mar. 11, 2015 so, it's expired. :(

    What a dunce I can be.

    Nonetheless, I've still got to reconstruct Win 10 Pro.
     
  8. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    @Earthling

    I checked my sales receipt for IDM. I DID purchase it in May of last year not March. I've begun reconstruction of Win 10 Pro. I don't know what's going on with IDM because it putzed out in Win 7 enterprise as well. So, I'm going to re-install on Win 10 Pro and see what happens.
     

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