Author Topic: Very Weird Windows Glitch (SOLVED) (Read 7785 times)

DanTheTechMan · « **on:** June 18, 2014, 12:13:33 pm »

Hi, I continue to have an issue opening the Local Security Policy Editor via the Administrative Tools menu via the Start Menu. I get the following error message, after conforming a UAC Prompt: An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist.

What does that error message mean, and how do I fix it? Using Windows 7 64-Bit.

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2014, 02:03:21 pm »

Not sure yet, can you post a screen shot of the actual error message for me and I will do some research on it

Shane

DanTheTechMan · « **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2014, 02:14:01 pm »

Here's the screenshot.

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2014, 02:17:18 pm »

Do any of the others open fine? Basically anything that uses the mmc.exe such as the event viewer, device manager, any of those. Right click on computer and choose manage. That uses the mmc.exe, does it give the error as well?

Shane

DanTheTechMan · « **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2014, 02:29:14 pm »

As far as I can tell, just the Local Security Policy Editor gives me this error.

Shane · « **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2014, 02:39:56 pm »

OK I found 3 causes of the error.

1. Bad crypto keys in the registry
2. Certain files in the system32 folder needs to be registered so they can write themselves to the registry
3. The wrong mmc.exe is set in the registry.

As for #3 lets look at it first since it would be the fastest. Look at the last post here by AdamPond
http://forum.sysinternals.com/shellrunas_topic17519_page3.html

So it is good to see if the registry is set to open the mmc from the syswow folder or the 64bit version in the system32 folder.

Shane

DanTheTechMan · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2014, 04:52:07 pm »

#3 worked. Thanks a bunch.

Shane · « **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2014, 04:54:03 pm »

Happy to help. I should see if that registry key is suppose to always be that, if so I will add it to the Windows repair

Shane