Are you able to view the control panel normally?
If not, this might help - Maybe ur control panel icons were removed or files corrupted this way by some program :
You can check to see if any of the below was done or not to ur computer (I dont know much about the CSLID folders and stuf in the reg so I cant say if it wud be wise to mess with those.)
"A simple way to remove Control Panel icons in Windows XP or Windows 2000 is to use the Group Policy editor: Choose Start, Run, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Use the tree on the left to navigate to Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel. With Control Panel selected in the left pane, double-click Hide specified Control Panel applets in the right pane. In the dialog box, select Enabled on the Policy tab and click the Show button. In the Show Contents dialog box, click Add (see FIGURE 1). Type the name of any applet icon as it appears in Control Panel and click OK.
Repeat these last two steps for each icon you want to remove. When you've entered the names of all the icons you want to remove, double-check your spelling in the Show Contents dialog box. If you change your mind about an item, select it and click Remove to take it off the list. Then click OK twice. This technique works for any Control Panel icon--even those added by non-Microsoft applications--but not for XP's category icons."
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,97440,00.asp - article
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