Action Center missing from Control Panel

Hello Gravis, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Is Action Center just grayed out in your System Icons settings for the notification area, or is also missing in the Control Panel (icons view)?

For the system icon in your notification area, see if step 1 in OPTION TWO of the tutorial below may be able to enable it.

System Icons - Enable or Disable

Have you tried running control /name Microsoft.SecurityCenter from the command prompt?
Have you checked if the file still exists in the System32 folder?

Action Center Shortcut - Create

LuzTeTT said:

Have you tried running control /name Microsoft.SecurityCenter from the command prompt?
Have you checked if the file still exists in the System32 folder?

Woah, sorry I don't really understand this. How do I run what you said? And what should i look for in System 32? I searched for 'control' in the System 32 folder, and this is the result.

EDIT: Haven't seen the link for the AC shortcut, checking it now! Thank you

gravis said:

LuzTeTT said:

Have you tried running control /name Microsoft.SecurityCenter from the command prompt?
Have you checked if the file still exists in the System32 folder?

Woah, sorry I don't really understand this. How do I run what you said? And what should i look for in System 32? I searched for 'control' in the System 32 folder, and this is the result.

You can create a shortcut. My post was magically updated to contain the instructions for that.
Just to confirm that Windows is still capable of loading the control panel applet, you can open Command Prompt and type the following prior to pressing your enter/return key to launch it directly: control /name Microsoft.SecurityCenter

You could probably also hold down the Windows Key + R and type in the bold text above for the same result.

Oh, dear.
You should confirm that the file is not missing.

In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32, or hold your Windows Key + R and type in C:\Windows\System32 prior to pressing your enter/return key.
If prompted about accessing protected files, allow and proceed without worry. You aren't modifying files or anything here so there is no risk involved.

In the top right hand corner where the search bar is locatd, type in wscui.cpl and hope for the best. If you get a result, then it is there. Double click it and, again, hope for the best. Report back with your result.

I thought as much. There are quite a few ways to place the file back in there where it belongs. This list is sorted by risk of infection/susceptibility of damage, from worst to best. Choose one or none.

• Download the file from a third-party website.
• Copy it from a friend's or neighboring computer's System32 directory on to a USB stick or similar, and then copy it on to your computer and in to the System32 directory.
• Locate the file on your Windows 7 installation medium. It will need to be extracted using Microsoft's own proprietary command line compression interface. I'm too tired to explain how, but there are articles on Seven Forums explaining how to do this. You can then place a fresh copy of the file on your PC in the System32 directory.
• Download third-party software to do a deep search on your computer's storage, whether that is a HDD or otherwise, and see if the file is still there in all of its bits and bytes to be restored on to another partition and then you may move it back to where it belongs.
• Check the Recycle Bin to see if it is there and then restore it by right clicking on it and choosing accordingly.